[Captain Kirk]

Two measley labs....which may not even been used in years constitute "certainty" that Iraq currently has WMD? Yeah right.

[mewzilla]

Two measley labs? How many do you need to cook up enough anthrax to kill people? You have a very short term memory if you've forgotten the anthrax scare after 9-11. How much anthrax do you think was involved there?

[Frank_Discussion]

I reserve the right to wrong about this, but weren't the labs in discussion supposed to be sterile? If they had not been used in years, something, even if not WMD, would be growing in them. The idea of the labs being so clean, that indicates to me that they had been scoured very well, and VERY RECENTLY. Months, a year on the outside.

[sirchtruth]

Two measley labs....which may not even been used in years constitute "certainty" that Iraq currently has WMD?

...and why not? So Powell presents evidence that mobile labs exist and lo and behold mobile labs are found and when more stuff is found what are you going to bitch and moan about then?...I'm sorry you can't deal with it, but your gonna have too.

Why would Saddam hide something he did NOT have? Why did he not reveal or account for what was already discovered by UN inspectors years before? That was his responsiblity voted and affirmed by the WORLD!

That is what he had to do to avert his ouster.

It isn't even neccessary to find them and the American people agree, so I guess your point is meaningless.

[Tunehead54]

Iraq itself declared that it had tons of WMD and never provided proof of its destruction. Since they had made it, admitted they had it, sarin, botulinim (sp), anthrax, etc. why is it that its pre-war existence is such a stretch?

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