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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159400)3/21/2005 11:29:33 PM
From: rich evans  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I can never understand this argument in the press and here about Saddam. I met a lady who was born and lived in Fallujah. She can't understand it either being and Iraqi and knowing them well.

In 1998, the UN inspectors documented , inventoried a lot of chemical and biological WMD. This is a fact.

The ISG under David Kay could find no evidence, documents or people who could show that the WMD was destroyed. This is a fact.

So do you believe in magic. My friend of Fallujah doesn't. She says the Iraq's had to have hid it or removed it or both.
David Kay concludes that they moved the WMD in the ISG report based on testimony and satellite photos of trucks at the Syrian border.

What degree of evidence do we need in intelligence matters?
We can't prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt so does that mean we are wrong? We can't prove anything with a preponderance of evidence so do that mean no WMD is hid or moved?
Well we have some evidence- some would say substantial evidence that WMD is hid or removed since the alternative that it was destroyed has no evidence.

And what about the other arguments which Bush and Blair especially used for the invasion namely- UN resolutions, and humanitarian.
So this preoccupation with NO WMD FOUND seems a little stupid to me as it certainly did not go poof.
Whether we can pull off the transformation of Iraq to a peaceful domocaracy and change the dynamics of the ME is another issue.
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