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To: JohnGalt
It tells us David Kay blew a billion dollars.

Wrong, as we've discussed before. Why would Hussein have viable WMD production facilities if he wasn't going to use them for something? Kay's report cited ongoing work (as of the time of the late-2002 U.N. inspections) on Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin that were not declared to the UN as was required by the 1991 cease fire agreements. And as I've told you several times, what did the congressional resolution authorizing President Bush to order the invasion of Iraq say about WMD? That Iraq had the "capacity to possess" them, not that they actually had them. And if you bothered listening to the president and Colin Powell during their addresses to the U.N., they were citing stockpiles that we knew to exist by Iraq's own admission following the Gulf War. They weren't accounted for, so we could only assume that Hussein didn't just flush them down the toilet. Once again, WMD programs = capacity to possess. Now bring up Israel possessing WMD, or your mistatement that "every country in the world" has WMD.

73 posted on 01/23/2004 2:58:59 PM PST by HenryLeeII
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To: HenryLeeII; Mo1
they were citing stockpiles that we knew to exist by Iraq's own admission

Yes! (Smacking my forhead here!) I believe you're right on that. Somebody didn't just arbitrarily come up with the number 49,000 liters (or whatever it was) of VX are unaccounted for. Thanks.

Prairie

76 posted on 01/23/2004 3:13:13 PM PST by prairiebreeze (God Bless and Protect the Allied Troops. And the families here at home---they are soldiers too.)
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To: HenryLeeII
HLII: Proud WMDead Ender.
100 posted on 01/25/2004 7:58:02 AM PST by JohnGalt ("...but both sides know who the real enemy is, and, my friends, it is us.")
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