Almost As Gripping As The Extended 1040 Form

The final CIA report on Iraq's WMD was in three gigantic pdf files. And then they put it in columns that made it very difficult to cut and paste sections of it. In fact, it was such a pain in the ass to work with that I suspect they did it on purpose. But now GlobalSecurity.org has turned it into an html document. This is very good news for those people who love to read 1000-page long government documents. I believe there are as many as three of us.

Some friends have questioned whether Charles Duelfer really did say the incredibly strange things in the report's introduction that I attributed to him. Well, now anyone can easily see see for themselves:

This report will also attempt to broaden understanding by recalibrating the perspective of the reader. The Regime was run by Saddam and the calculations he made concerning WMD were based on his view of relevant related factors not ours. Optimally, we would remove the reader temporarily from his reality and time. We would collect the flow of images, sounds, feelings, and events that passed into Saddam's mind and project them as with a Zeiss Planetarium projection instrument. The reader would see the Universe from Saddam's point in space. Events would flow by the reader as they flowed by Saddam.

I must say I'm impressed by Duelfer's professional acumen. The Zeiss Planetarium projection instrument is really the best way to place someone inside the mind of middle eastern dictators. Obviously for far east dictators like Kim Jong Il, you'd want to use the Morgan Planetarium projection device. But the Zeiss is definitely the way to go with Saddam.