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To: Stultis
So is the author of this piece the liar or the other authors?
44 posted on 06/09/2003 1:38:14 PM PDT by JohnGalt (They're All Lying)
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To: JohnGalt
So is the author of this piece the liar or the other authors?

Liar? I don't understand. This is serious stuff, and needs to be dealt with seriously. Not with 'Rat style finger pointing.

Who's right? What are the facts? These are the relevant questions. Did Saddam destroy his chem/bio weapons, allow them to degrade, hide them or transfer them, or some combination? Over what period of time? What about the nuclear program? What point was it at?

These questions will be answered. I'll remind you that the full inspections teams only arrived in Iraq last week.

Personally, I'm inclined to the view that Saddam decided on a strategy to hide and preserve his WMD programs when the run-up to Iraq began over a year ago. It might not have been intended, particulary, to involve the destruction, semi-permanent interning, or transfer of chem and bio weapons, but could have evolved in that direction as Saddam's lieutenants assessed the difficulties of hiding weapons and the risks of their being discovered.

This is purely a guess, and I'm perfectly willing to wait on the result of the investigations recently begun, but such a scenario is plausible so long as it is born in mind that the programs to produce the weapons are much more important than the weapons themselves.

The programs would be difficult, time-consuming and costly to reconstitute, but not so the weapons provided the programs have been preserved, or moth-balled in such a way that they could be rapidly restarted.

67 posted on 06/09/2003 2:16:19 PM PDT by Stultis
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