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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: KLP who wrote (156926)1/25/2005 12:08:51 PM
From: michael97123   of 281500
 
Whether we find something or not is surely debatable. Important things to note are:
1. Gulf War and subsequent regimen largely removed his ability to be a player.
2. When we attacked, we were using the best worst intel available at the time as was the UN and France. In short everyone fell for it, perhaps even saddam who may have been fooled by his own scientists.
3. Going forward without the war and ultimately without enforceable sanctions, and with saddam, sleazy and queazy firmly in power, you can bet the farm that they would have tried to reconstitue their wmds programs.

So finding wmds really doesnt matter as much as pro war folks think it does although the intel screw up does and is great cause of embarrasment.
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