[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you for the post, yoe!

No, PYW, I didn't. Thank you so much for this ping. (^:

Mr. Krauthammer is brilliant. The article opens with a bang, ends with a bang - and the middle's packed w/ 'loud' facts.

Rolf Ekeus, living proof that not all Swedish arms inspectors are fools, may have been right.

Ekeus headed the U.N. inspection team that from 1991 to 1997 uncovered not just tons of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq, but a massive secret nuclear weapons program as well. This, after the other Swede, Hans Blix, then director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, had given Saddam a perfectly clean bill of health on being non-nuclear. Indeed, Iraq was sitting on the IAEA Board of Governors.

Hans, Hans, Hans...

The article to share with the misinformed re. WMDs and the Kay report.

 Thanks, Tonkin!

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[Dog]

Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever.

He was trying to turn this into a weapon.......wow!

[onyx]

I love his last paragraph! My exact sentiments regarding the UN.

[radu]

LOTS of info here to digest!! Thanks for the ammo!

Mass e-mailed to share the knowlege. :-)

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[PhilDragoo]

Ignorant enemies of America, we smite thee with the Krauthammer.

CCHF would probably be delivered by aerosol if used as a BW agent.

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[windchime]

Bump!