Will the American people accept documents in place of actual weapons?

[SweetZombieJesus]

As easy to dupe as most Americans were in the run up to the war, I think now cynicism is running way too high, and the administration and the media made way too much of a deal about the actual weapons existing for the people to just accept documents and talk of "programs" over real evidence.

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[FloridaPat]

2. Only if there are fake dead bodies coming back from Iraq.

[kentuck]

3. Only if they're from Africa via Italy.....

:)

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Nope

this is building and the anger is building

People will nto accept it, and what will keep driving this
are the relatives of those in the line of fire.

[aquart]

5. No. Documents can be forged.

And soldiers talk.

[59millionmorons]

6. No

I could go into my Grandmothers attic and find tons of recipies for cake. But I have no proof she actually baked a cake. Gee I hope that made sense.

[BeFree]

7. Who knows what the sheeple will like?

I'd bet the White House is thinking: "Let 'em eat cake"

One can hope, however, that the sheeple will not like the idea that the WMD exist on paper, only.

These are the good old days......

[sandnsea]

8. Some accept Saddam didn't disarm

There are those who are satisfied with Saddam didn't comply so that in itself shows he was guilty. It will depend on how well this Administration's motives are exposed with the lies leading to the war as to whether the programs garbage can be spun.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

9. They accept video games instead of voting machines

so why not?

[leftyandproud]

10. nope *NT*

that was easy

[IndianaGreen]

11. Take a blank sheet of paper and some crayons and draw...

Take a blank sheet of paper and some crayons and draw a mushroom cloud. That's the only proof of a WMD program that Bush can produce, and many Americans will accept the drawing a proof.

It is not the first time that a crude drawing has been accepted as evidence of WMD. Remember the Rosenbergs?:



Prominent in the case against Julius Rosenberg were the sketches David Greenglass allegedly made for Gold of a high explosive lens mold used to make the atom bomb. Greenglass claimed also that he later gave Julius a sketch of a nuclear "implosion bomb" and a 12-page description of it, which he claimed was then typed up by Ethel Rosenberg. Replicas of Greenglass’s drawing of the lens mold and the atom bomb cross-section were presented by prosecuting attorneys Irving Saypol and Roy Cohn at the trial. The drawings, done by Greenglass after he was taken into police custody, were crude and amateurish. This is not surprising, since Greenglass, as a machinist, had no scientific training. That didn’t stop the prosecution from presenting witnesses willing to testify as to the usefulness and accuracy of the drawings. All the so-called physical evidence presented, from the "trick" table to the Jello box to the sketches, were merely illustrations of things that were asserted to have existed–not real evidence of anything.

The only real proof of the Rosenbergs’ guilt that the prosecution presented was their left-wing affiliations. Prosecutor Irving Saypol opened his case: "The evidence will show that the loyalty and allegiance of the Rosenbergs and Sobell were not to our country, but that it was to communism, communism in this country and communism throughout the world."9

http://www.isreview.org/issues/29/rosenbergs.shtml