In message , Leslie Swartz
writes
Vince:

- What about the 30 or so 55 gal drums of Lewisite?

Which were found when and where?

- What about the mobile chem labs?

You mean the canvas-sided trailers that might be mobile WME factories...
or might be mobile hydrogen generators?

- What about the Rycin?

Ricin. Some evidence of ricin manufacture turned up in a UK house (it's
not that hard to do) but I don't recall any significant Iraqi program
being discovered.

- What about the Botulinum?

How much, how weaponised?

- What about the anthrax cultures?

Is this the culture that a scientist was told to hide in his
refrigerator in 1991?

- What about the residuals at various dumping sites?

What about them? Any recent activity?

How much "evidence of WMD;" or, more to the point, "evidence of WMD
programs" is enough for you?

Enough to suggest that there was a significant threat of weaponised,
deployable agents.

We know he used to have a WME program; ask an Iranian veteran, ask a
Kurd. We know a lot of it was captured or destroyed post-1991 and more
destroyed in 1998. What we don't know with certainty is (a) how much he
actually had, (b) how much was lost or destroyed, (c) how much the
Iraqis disposed of themselves.


In six months of occupation, with unlimited access, and many key
decisionmakers and scientists in custody, we haven't found any
deployable weapons, nor any means to produce them in a useful timescale.



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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

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