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"tscottme" wrote in message
... So you have no trouble making excuses for Saddam? How typical, how long have you been a Liberal? I made no such excuse. It's obvious he certainly did hold weaponised stocks of those materials in the past, but he used them almost 20 years ago. My argument is simply that we went to war on the "evidence" of a clear and present danger from such weaponised materials today. As I said, I can't imagine a regime that used them without compunction against it's own people wouldn't use them in even a last ditch attempt to save itself. That's not apologist, simply logic. As for being Liberal, well I suspect the term means slightly different things in our different political systems. To me it's more a compliment than an insult. The alternative to liberalism is radicalism. Saddam used the weapons, he declared vast amounts of them, intelligence services all over the world documented the tons and tons of material and machines to produce and maintain the WMDs, and as the article points out, the thorough inspections have only cleared about 10 or 20 of the 130 known munitions storage areas. How many aircraft were buried in the desert of Iraq that we only found out about because locals brought it to our attention. The anthrax stocks could fit in a few 55 gallon drums which take up less space than one of those buried MiGs. In addition people and trucks were streaming out of Iraq into Syria before, during, and just after the war. There's no doubt Iraq was attempting to build a substantial NBC capability some years ago. Whether they exaggerated their own declarations (as I suggested in the previous msg) to scare neighbouring nations is a view that is gaining credibility in the US intelligence circles and has been discussed in the media. Doesn't mean it has to be the only reason as to why nothing's been found, but until something is found (if it ever will be) it has to be considered. There's evidence both superpowers during the Cold War also exaggerated their nuclear arsenals for the same reasons. Si |
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