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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (395253)4/20/2003 8:14:05 AM
From: George Coyne  Read Replies (2) of 769669
 
Yo, Ray Duhray, Nice use of bold and random repetition! Here is an article by someone who basically agrees with your source, but is, IMO, much more reasonable.

philly.com

So why would such weapons not have been used in the regime's final stand?

"The order most likely would have had to come from Saddam himself," said Zumwalt, who is now a lawyer in Washington. "With command and control disrupted, and with the threat of war-crimes prosecution, lower-level officers may not have dared to use them."

Zumwalt ranks the chance that Hussein somehow destroyed the stockpiles on his own "about nil."

It wouldn't make sense. Hussein weathered more than a decade of crippling sanctions because he refused to disarm. He complained bitterly about them. How likely is it that he would have endured the sanctions if he had, in fact, destroyed the very weapons that were their cause? What purpose would be served by allowing the world to believe he still had the arsenals?
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