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To: Dayuhan who wrote (105907)7/17/2003 2:14:16 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Perhaps it needs to be repeated, once more: the relevant issue here is not whether Saddam did or did not have WMD. The issue is whether the level of threat posed by Saddam was deliberately exaggerated. This question will not be answered by the discovery or non-discovery of WMD; it is just a bit more complicated than that.


That is indeed the issue - in the sense of the brouhaha that the Dems are using to beat up on the administration right now. However, it's a damn silly issue in any terms but those of partisan politics, because its underlying assumption - that Saddam was no threat to anybody, and the fact that WMDs haven't been found yet proves it - is unlikely to the point of absurdity. Moreover, it distracts attention from really important questions, like "what the #$%^@! happened to those damn WMDs and where is Saddam and does he have them and what does he intend to do with them? What do you mean, you don't know?!"

As Stratfor pointed out, there are only three possibilities:

1. The WMDs never existed. Obviously not true. Just ask the survivors of Halabja.
2. The WMDs did exist, but Saddam destroyed them in secret while making everybody believe he still had them. Implausible. Even for Saddam this would be weird. Why would he pay all the cost of the programs with none of the benefit?
3. The WMDs still exist. Once 1 and 2 are eliminated, this is the only option you are left with, In which case, the questions where the $&%$#@ are they and who has them? become rather urgent.
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