Help me translate this...

[mikki74]

An F.B.I. spokeswoman, Judy Orihuelah, said, "Obviously we would have to go
through all of the passengers and say, 'Did you see anything?' " Ms. Orihuelah
added that anyone who responded that they had seen something was interviewed
more extensively.

I don't understand the grammar structure of the sentence:" Obviously we WOULD
HAVE TO....anything?". Shouldn't it be like this: "Obviously we HAD to go
through....?"?

The context is that the FBI spokeswoman spoke about interviewing all the
passengers of a plane after one passenger had been shot by air marshals. The
whole article:
nytimes.com/2005/12/08/national/08plane.html?hp&ex=1134104400&en=acd86a26ade2fbb4&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[salmotrutta]

would have to vs. had to
musielibysmy vs. musielismy

[mikki74]

But they did it - they questioned the passengers. So it should be "...had to..."
instead of "...would have to..."

nice try, hehehe

[ontarian]

myslalas, ze 'nativa' na tak podstawowym bkedzie przylapals?
An F.B.I. spokeswoman, Judy Orihuelah, said, "Obviously we would have to go
through all of the passengers and say, 'Did you see anything?' " Ms. Orihuelah
a wroc uwage, zdanie to jest w ""
wiec dlaczego zakladasz, ze bylo wypowiedziane po fakcie?

[mikki74]

Nie bawie sie w przylapywanie nativow na bledach, lecz staram wyjasnic kwestie,
ktorej nie rozumiem. Ze ostatniego zdania (" Ms. Orihuelah added that ...")
wynika, ze wypowiadala sie juz po fakcie.

[ontarian]

mikki74 napisał:

> ktorej nie rozumiem. Ze ostatniego zdania (" Ms. Orihuelah added that ...")
bo to dziennikarz pisze o tej Ms.
wiec on z nia rozmawial w przeszlosci
a teraz pisze artykul
jest tylko niewielki cytat
tego to co ona powiedziala

[easystreet]

Odpowiedz Salmo-sorry-I-didn't-quite-catch-your-nick jest AOK!