Glenn Reynolds’ Pre War Intelligence Carnival has been posted at OSM.org. It’s huge, with lots of posts on both sides. How Glenn managed to tackle a project of this size I don’t know, but he did a great job, and I thank him for including the post I wrote over the weekend.
And here are the posts which stood out for me:
….we have found nerve agents in roadside bombs, a large chemical weapons factory in Mosul, 1.7 metric tons of enriched uranium, parts for gas centrifuges, yellowcake uranium from Iraq in Rotterdam, and the parts of long range missiles (pdf) he wasn’t supposed to have. Also I would remind the reader that Iraq had a history of using chemical weapons against Iran and the Kurds and had an advanced nuclear project in the 80’s before Israel bombed it.
This Carnival covers every question you could possibly ask about pre-war intelligence, and many that you’d have never thought to ask. Much as I dislike debates, this one has been forced upon everyone, and the blogosphere is more than living up to its part.
UPDATE: I almost missed Laurence Simon’s “Let’s ask the cats about pre-war intelligence failures” post, but Glenn linked it at InstaPundit.
They say that curiosity killed the cat, and while I don’t normally stick my nose where it doesn’t belong, I cannot say the same thing for my dog Coco. Right now, she’s making a lot of noise in the background, and that’s because because she takes issue with the cat Laurence calls “Haley” who states:
My two secret agents here gave me faulty info. I told them to sniff out the weapons of mass destruction. I should have realized that when they said they found the mother load, they meant shredded cheese, not shredded documents.
Coco wants the whole world to know that she has no fear of shredded documents, nor any fear of shredders for that matter. She leaves no stone unturned in her dogged determination to rid the world of bad documents, while valiantly attempting to save the good ones from the shredder!
So brave is Coco that I don’t think she’d fear a huge plastic shredder.
Me, Ow!
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One day, someone nuttier than me will Ask The Dogs.
Well, I already ask them. It’s just that I’m not sure the judgmental world out there would believe my translations of their answers.
🙂
More Coco pics, please. Coco had me at hello. She had me at hello. Maybe a post on her as a puppy compared to now? Also, while you’re at it, could you maybe recommend an obedience book or philosophy?
I’m delighted you like Coco — and I’ll try to get some more pics up.
For athletic, stubborn dogs like pit bulls, I recommend the Koehler Method of Guard Dog Training, if you can get a copy. A former Disney trainer, Koehler has the principles down, and really knows the inside of the canine mind. He thought that if trained properly, pit bulls were among the best shutzhund quality dogs.
Amazingly, even though it’s out of print, I found it at Amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0876055528/103-7678534-5523812?v=glance&n=283155&%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
(Koehler died years ago, but his wisdom lives on in his book.)