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Model airplanes are a delivery system, but they are not an offensive. We must be using terms diffently.

I'm referring to small unmanned aircraft built on the lines of R/C models. Typically, they are a long-range powered glider design and are computer-controlled and GPS-guided. These type of craft have been built for under $10,000 and have been launched and crossed the Atlantic and landed at their destination in Europe for at least the last five years. It's not rocket science, merely applying known principles to readily available off-the-shelf technology.

I'm sure you recall the panic over reports that Saddam was testing these and had models that were flying over five hundred miles at his testing grounds.

We had threads on the topic here at FR. And it was on national news repeatedly during the U.N. flap and the run-up to invasion. That was how Saddam was going to get us with his WMD and tied directly into why we should have the plastic sheeting and duct tape for civil defense.

Very reminiscent of the panics over Japan's war balloons in WW II. Fortunately, Japan never launched any war balloons equipped with bioweapons but they certainly had the edge over Russian, America, Germany and Britain in bioweapons. They just never tried to use them. I'm sure you're familiar with their infamous project and the thousands they killed testing their weapons on live subjects.

I'm talking about conducting an offensive campaign against the US.

After one such strike, there would be no ability to sustain operations. In fact, there were no such strikes, and Hussein was easily rendered incapable of sustaining military operations. Our ability to project power and mount an offensive campaign is not an ability that we alone have. Great Britain, China, Russia, France, and others could do it.

There was never any suggestion that Saddam could bring a WMD war to us. Nor is there any likelihood that Iran or N. Korea can do it. N Korea would be able to mount a campaign against any of their neighbors.