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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (71821)2/6/2003 2:05:32 PM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
You don't have to know a lot of squat about those tubes. Rockets are throw away weapons - get a lot of firepower for cheap - fine tolerances aren't necessary or desirable.

Whatever those tubes were meant for, they weren't for rockets.

(4) thus, as a controversial point it might have been wiser for Powell to leave them out of his speech, less that controversy slightly undermine the strength of other arguments

A major argument the US is making is that Hussein is continuing with his atomic weapons program. Iraq kept ordering the tubes machined to ever greater tolerances. The argument, in terms of fact, will be utterly accepted by governments and intelligence agencies, and just about any ordinary citizen, like, say, a car mechanic or industrial worker.
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