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To: JohnM who wrote (2421)6/20/2003 1:14:05 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 794001
 
First, what happened between 98 and 03. Second, it now looks as if the Iraqis did not have the capabilities to be an imminent threat.


Well, if Saddam threw out the inspectors in 1998 in order to meekly destroy all his WMDs and WMD programs, while still suffering the sanctions and eventual violent overthrow for them, you gotta admit, he sure had everybody fooled. And I do mean everybody.

I will continue to believe an alternate hypothesis, on the working assumption that Saddam was not totally and completely irrational, even by the standards of paranoid dictators.

As for "no capacity to be an imminent threat" - sure he did. All he had to do is fund and arm terrorists, and we know he was doing that. Have you forgotten Salman Pak already?
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