Inspectors Call U.S. Tips 'Garbage'

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in537096.shtml

U.N. sources have told CBS News that American tips have lead to one dead end after another.

Example: satellite photographs purporting to show new research buildings at Iraqi nuclear sites. When the U.N. went into the new buildings they found "nothing."

Example: Saddam's presidential palaces, where the inspectors went with specific coordinates supplied by the U.S. on where to look for incriminating evidence. Again, they found "nothing."

Example: Interviews with scientists about the aluminum tubes the U.S. says Iraq has imported for enriching uranium, but which the Iraqis say are for making rockets. Given the size and specification of the tubes, the U.N. calls the "Iraqi alibi air tight."

The inspectors do acknowledge, however, that they would not be here at all if not for the threat of U.S. military action.

So frustrated have the inspectors become that one source has referred to the U.S. intelligence they've been getting as "garbage after garbage after garbage." In fact, Phillips says the source used another cruder word. The inspectors find themselves caught between the Iraqis, who are masters at the weapons-hiding shell game, and the United States, whose intelligence they've found to be circumstantial, outdated or just plain wrong.

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Lupus et Agnus

Ad rivum eundem lupus et agnus venerant, siti compulsi.
Superior stabat lupus, longeque inferior agnus. Tunc fauce improba latro incitatus iurgii causam intulit; 'Cur ' inquit 'turbulentam fecisti mihi aquam bibenti?' Laniger contra timens 'Qui possum, quaeso, facere quod quereris, lupe? A te decurrit ad meos haustus liquor '. Repulsus ille veritatis viribus 'Ante hos sex menses male ' ait 'dixisti mihi '. Respondit agnus 'Equidem natus non eram '. 'Pater hercle tuus ' ille inquit 'male dixit mihi '; atque ita correptum lacerat iniusta nece. Haec propter illos scripta est homines fabula qui fictis causis innocentes opprimunt

INTERPRETATIO

Bush et Saddam sitientes ad eundem rivulum petrolei accesserant. Bush constiterat superius, Saddam multo inferius. Deinde raptor compulsus gula insatiabili finxit causam iurgandi: Cur, ait, liquorem turbavisti, dum potabam? Saddam vicissim respondit metuens: Quomodo, obsecro, Bush, valeo id efficere, de quo expostulas? A te defluit aqua ad me bibentem. - Ille retusus vi veritatis, dixit: Sed indigne de me locutus es abhinc sex menses. Saddam contra: Prorsus, inquit, non eram procreatus. - Per Herculem, parens tuus, ait, de me indigne locutus est! Et sic eum rapit et laniat, immerito necans. - Haec fabula ficta est in eos homines, qui insontes perimunt falsis criminibus.


Fortasse non est agnus Saddam, neque lupus Bush.
Sed fabula minima pars veritatis etiam nunc tenet.