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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (5855)	3/10/2003 5:21:46 PM
From: augieboo	Read Replies (1) of 11447

[1] many industrial chemicals are "dual use." Examples: High nitrogen fertilizer + diesel fuel + heat (use a double boiler to avoid blowing yourself up) = low grade plastic explosive. Insecticides & Nerve gas have the same basic ingredients. Bio-drugs & Bio-weapons use many of the same processes & ingredients. [2] The cold war forced U.S. policy makers to make a lot of ugly choices. During the Iran-Iraq war it was believed in Washington that preventing the Iranians from winning was important enough so that we should look the other way when Saddam used WMD against Iranian "human wave" attacks. I don't know if this assessment was correct, but I do remember that even in my leftist youth I was not particularly keen on the idea of Iran controlling Iraq -- from which it could spread its Islamic revolution to Saudi Arabia & the Gulf States. (Obviously the joke turned out to be on us in re Islamic revolutionaries but hindsight is always 20-20.) Anyhow, the folks who actually had to make the decision thought that keeping Iran out of Iraq was more important that Saddam's use of WMD against Iranian troops. I don't know whether the other alternative, i.e., direct military support to Iraq, was ever studied or what. I hope so, but who knows? Apparently, once Saddam saw that the US would acquiesce in his use of WMD against the Iranians he figured he could just use them at will. Given the proverbial inch he took the proverbial mile. Which is precisely why the UN inspection crappola cannot work. He has been given inches and taking miles for twelve years now. There is no way he is going to give up his quest for WMD until we force him to militarily. Sure, you can argue that we created the monster, so what moral ground do we have to be critical? I would readily concede that we at minimum participated in creating the monster. I would then argue that because we helped to create the monster we are obligated to help destroy it.

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