re gulf war was re death penalty was re political atheists in article o rusnews w w mantis co uk mathew mathew mantis co uk writes mccullou snake cs wisc edu mark mccullough writes i looked back at this and asked some questions of various people and got the following information which i had claimed and you pooh poohed the us has not sold iraq any arms what about the land mines which have already been mentioned i asked around in one of the areas you suggested yourself and presented the information i got no mention of us landmines was given other countries like kuwait information is hard to prove you are claiming that the us sold information prove it information is hard to prove almost certainly if the us did sell information then that fact is classified and you can t prove it oh very neat dismiss everything i say unless i can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt something which you yourself admit i can never prove to your satisfaction thanks i ll stick to squaring circles mathew okay so you are going to blindly believe in things without reasonable evidence i didn t realize you were a theist i am doubting a claim presented without any evidence to support it if you are able to present real evidence for it then great but unsupported claims or even claims by such and such news agency will not be accepted if you want to stick to the sheer impossible instead of the merely difficult then fine the statement that if such a fact is classified then you can t prove it is a simple matter of pragmatics and the law if you have access to classified information that you know to be classified and you reveal it there is a good chance that you or someone else the person who revealed it to you is going to jail i never said that you couldn t prove it to my satisfaction i merely said that it was difficult who said i try and make things easy for people i am arguing with unless of course they need the handicap mccullou whipple cs wisc edu never program and drink beer at the same m time it doesn t work
