At 03:30 PM 6/13/2006, Philip Hart wrote: >On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > > > Is this statement by Kiera in /Orca/ about Verra's foresight not our "best > > available knowledge" of the subject? > >Vlad may consider himself to have learned something, but I think we have >to have a higher standard than believing X because Y told Z. > > > > Majikjon > > -Missing the reference to "16 words", and it sounds like interesting > > reading. > >OT and political: > >This refers to the implied claim by President Bush in his State of the >Union message from '03 that the Brits knew Saddam Hussein had sought >uranium in Africa. The admin subsequently retracted the statement, >though the Blair govt stands by it. It is believed that the formulation >"The British govt has learned X" was used because there was too much >insistence in our govt that we had no evidence for X, but it was true >that the Brits claimed X. There was a great deal of unhappiness about >"learned" under the view of its meaning expressed earlier. Oh, surely the British would have phrased that, "...the...government have learned..."? -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net