April 20, 2003


Flop sweat
'However sanguine officials sound in public, in private the pressure is rising. The Pentagon dispatched an entire brigade - 3,000 troops - to the search and offered $200,000 bounties for any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) uncovered. Local officers were authorized to make payments of $2,500 on the spot. "The White House is screaming, 'Find me some WMD,'" says a State Department official.

'"It may be that there aren't as many weapons as the president said, in which case we have a major intelligence failure, a huge embarrassment for the president and a huge blow to U.S. credibility," said Joseph Cirincione, chief of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.' - link.


'Well, dears, we can either
continue to pith the American public,
or we can plant those suckers! What'll it be?!'


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