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To me, it comes down to three critical data pieces:

1. Mohammed Atta's meeting with that Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague. Might they have had a purely innocent conversation about strip clubs and sushi bars? It's possible, but not likely.

2. The terrorist training center at Salman Pak is reported to have taught a method of hijacking VERY similar to the M.O. used by the hijackers on 9/11. Coincidence? Perhaps. But again, I'm not too sure.

3. Atta was asking about cropdusters. Normally used to spray insecticide, but if you can spray a gas to kill insects, it's not too hard to assume that you can spray a gas that can kill people too.

4. According to the dossier, Iraq has 360 tons of bulk chemical agents, including 1.5 tons of VX, and 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including 300 tons of precursors for VX.

It's like being a cop dealing with a violent criminal who has been known to violently resist arrest in the past. The guy is reaching for something on his belt. Do you wait to see if it's his wallet? If you wait, it could easily be a gun, and you will probably be shot.

In this case, we have to shoot first. It's not going to look good, but the alternative is to place thousands of innocent lives at risk - needlessly, IMO. We have to place the innocents ahead of Saddam - it's the best option we have, and the most rational.

There are three types of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.

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