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Two thoughts on the Iraqi Ba'athists' WMD's:

1. If someone was lying, it was Saddam Hussein. If (and I doubt it) his goverment had only the few labs mentioned in the ISG's final report (enough to produce chemical or biological weapons for a terrorist attack, though not enough to produce enough for battlefield use), why the cat-and-mouse game with UNSCOM? If they didn't have WMD's, their behavior was the lie, not the intepretation given it by every intelligence service on the planet. (Point this out to every leftist who gives you the 'Bush lied' line.)

2. What was the huge camoflagued depot full of drums, supposedly of organophospate pesticides, doing on an Iraqi military post? And what pesticide was it? There is at least one organophosphate pesticide (banned in the US) that the Canadian intelligence service lists as a possible terrorist weapon. Could it be we found the WMD's, but that they were 'dual use' technology (a little light spray kills bugs, a good strong one humans)? The stuff we found was strong enough to cause nerve gas exposure symptoms (all satisfactorily treated) in the troops who found it.

What was the huge camoflagued depot full of drums, supposedly of organophospate pesticides, doing on an Iraqi military post? And what pesticide was it? There is at least one organophosphate pesticide (banned in the US) that the Canadian intelligence service lists as a possible terrorist weapon. Could it be we found the WMD's, but that they were 'dual use' technology (a little light spray kills bugs, a good strong one humans)? The stuff we found was strong enough to cause nerve gas exposure symptoms (all satisfactorily treated) in the troops who found it.

I REMEMBER THIS!

Oh, I DO I DO I DO!!! I remember seeing this on my crackberry while surfing Yahoo! News on it ... 2 years ago while awaiting Jury Duty! It was there, from FOX News, and then it was gone... and that was the only mention made of it I ever found until your post right here. And HOW COULD IT NOT BE Chemical Weapons?

Did you ever hear about the one incident where they found a bunch of liquid filled rockets? And not like liquid propelled, but filled warheads. I never could find out anything more about that one either.

"If someone was lying, it was Saddam Hussein. If (and I doubt it) his goverment had only the few labs mentioned in the ISG's final report (enough to produce chemical or biological weapons for a terrorist attack, though not enough to produce enough for battlefield use), why the cat-and-mouse game with UNSCOM"

This is the part that completely baffles me. If Saddam wanted sanctions lifted, all he had to do was cooperate with weapons inspectors. If he DIDN'T want them lifted because he was making too high a profit from the blood for oil vouchers scam, then more employees of the UN were complicit in that hideous debacle than originally thought.