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To: KingofQue
Now think a bit. Iraq admits to the UN that it had Sarin gas. Iraq admits it had VX nerve agent. Iraq admits it has anthrax. These are WMD. These agents are what they ADMITTED to having in the report to the UN in, I believe, 2001. Why would they admit they had these weapons if thay didn't have them?

Okay, now you think a bit. This is a government that according to our own intelligence, post-war, was falling apart years before our troops invaded. Hussein's sons were too busy throwing parties and torturing civilians. Think modern day Caligula. They found Hussein in a ditch, with notes to his troops telling them not to co-operate with Al Qaeda, but we'll not go with the obvious reason for that. I seriously doubt anyone in that government knew if anything was going on or not. Now we're at a year later and even the President's hand picked search leader comes back and says he doubts there was any production of WMDs in the 1990s.

I'm not doubting the report said WMDs existed. I'm not even doubting where the report came from. But what I am doubting is that the government probably didn't even know. Where are the scientists? Where are the materials? The massive amounts of WMDs? To make your story plausible, we first have to believe a man, an Iraqi, whose organization is still receiving funds from our government, all the while having been discredited by the CIA and other intelligence organizations even before the war. Then we would have to accept that all these WMDs, with the scientists, their families, and anyone even closely related to this production were whisked away to Syria, Iran, or wherever the neocons want to take us next. Of course with no trace whatsoever, no intelligence reports, no one seeing them move, no spy cameras picking them up, etc.

The most plausible answer to this is that they just weren't there as many believed. Either that or believe a third world nation, with no help from anyone, was able to fool the most advanced military, and advanced search tactics in the world. Were those that believed wrong to do so? No. But the men that influenced leaders who made the final decision on the path to war should be held accountable for their actions

20 posted on 03/16/2004 7:45:47 PM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice.)
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To: billbears
Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:


• up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;


• up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;


• growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);


• over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;


• 20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);


• 2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;


• development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)

I have no idea where Saddam put this stuff. It will be revealed eventually.
21 posted on 03/21/2004 8:04:43 PM PST by KingofQue
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