I didn't read the Galbraith article yesterday, and now I can't find a link to it. It may still be there, but as I don't speak Dutch, it isn't obvious.
However, Let us discuss your last statement:
Futher it does not address the blunders stated in the interview, esspecialy about guarding the yellow cake, high quality explosives, the national museum, etc.This yellow cake?http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3009082.stm:Although an estimated 20% of the containers which stored the uranium were taken from the site, it appeared that looters had dumped the uranium before taking the barrels.
Much of it appears to have been on or near Tuwaitha, unnamed diplomats said, quoted by the Associated Press news agency.About that 500 tons of yellow cake......why would any organization {the IEAE} charged with keeping a lid on nuclear proliferation allow that much fissile material to be kept by a bloodthirsty tyrant who had already demonstrated a desire to construct a nuclear weapon?Missing high explosives? John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad. Museum looting?So, there's the picture: 100,000-plus priceless items looted either under the very noses of the Yanks, or by the Yanks themselves. And the only problem with it is that it's nonsense. It isn't true. It's made up. It's bollocks.
Not all of it, of course. There was some looting and damage to a small number of galleries and storerooms, and that is grievous enough. But over the past six weeks it has gradually become clear that most of the objects which had been on display in the museum galleries were removed before the war. Some of the most valuable went into bank vaults, where they were discovered last week. Eight thousand more have been found in 179 boxes hidden "in a secret vault". And several of the larger and most remarked items seem to have been spirited away long before the Americans arrived in Baghdad. >In short, I don't see the article disproving the point of the interview.
It wasn't meant to. It was meant to illustrate that there are two sides to the theory. Galbraith isn't on the ground over there. Amir Taheri has been. You draw your own conclusions.
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