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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (450774)8/30/2003 9:40:01 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
Actually it was told, but the White House did their best to portray the inspectors as hopeless and ineffective. The excellent ability of the inspectors to contain Iraq was an impediment to US plans to make war. The inspectors also provided most of the useful intel on Saddam. After they were pulled out (they were never kicked out) of Iraq, the intel dried up and we used exiles instead -- exiles with an agenda to have us invade and install them as a new Iraqi government. The inspectors had a hard time finding anything new in 2003 because there was nothing left to find by that time. The search was based on the need to improve documentation of the destruction process -- but the actual search for WMD came up empty because the inspectors had found all there was to find. Because the US/UN pulled inspectors out years ago, it was hard to be certain about the WMD issues, except on three scores: 1) There was a high level of confidence among the nuclear inspectors that there was no post 91 nuke program. 2) Poor man's wmd's do not store well -- they rot and become ineffective, so in the absence of fresh production, most of Saddam's wmd's would destroy themselves after so many years. 3) Saddam had absolutely no way to deliver wmd payloads even if he had them.
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