Reply #2: Those trucks covered only by canvas reminded me- [View All]

[Rose Siding]

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Q: We were told by -- (off mike) -- that you were going to be deploying sentinel chickens to Kuwait. (Laughter.) And we learned over the weekend that a large chunk of the first batch of these things that you sent over there died, for reasons unknown to anyone. How seriously should we take the sentinel chicken phenomenon? And how many would you be deploying if it is something that we should take seriously? And how effective are sentinel chickens?

Reeves: Well, let me take that one on. First of all, it was the Marine Corps that was deploying the chickens, not the Army. (Laughter.) I'm sure this is well-intended, and I'm sure it's based on the idea of the canaries in the mine, where, you know, when the canary had enough methane, why, the canary stopped singing. That's an important point because if the miners waited until the canary was dead, they'd probably be dead, too.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/usa/2003/usa-030303-dod01.htm

That, along with the expose done about the notoriously faulty protective gear, AND congressional testimony that wmd were much less likely to ever be used against the US if we didn't invade Iraq, was some of the most convincing evidence, to me, that the wmd threat was never taken seriously.