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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (1082)2/6/2004 2:48:01 PM
From: Selectric IIRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
Bush certainly did, and he reasonably relied on the same information that everyone else did.

Don't you think it's ironic that Saddam himself might have been misled by his own advisors, who out of fear for their lives told him they had greater WMD capabilities than they really had?

Don't you think it's also ironic that Kerry, Bush-haters, and even some of the esteemed posters on this and other SI threads are prematurely jumping to the conclusion that Saddam DIDN'T have any WMD capabilities, when Tenet and other intelligence types (who appear to have been wrong before) say that at a minimum that Saddam had programs in place, the ability to produce chem and bio WMD's on short notice, that he was seeking nukes, that he had used WMD's in the past, and that there's still a lot of investigation to do?

Please tell me, Chinu, if Saddam had managed to buy a nuke on the black market or from N. Korea instead of having to produce his own, what do you think he might have done with it?

Do you think maybe Saddam decided it would be easier and less expensive to just buy one ready-made than develop his own?
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