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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (159969)	3/31/2005 7:21:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Orca, Saddam had a long love affair with every system of advanced weaponry known to man. He had (and used) chemical weapons against the Iranians and the Kurds, he had a nuclear program, he had a bioweapons program, he tried to develop a super gun. When sanctions he fell on him he tried to evade them with every strategem of non-cooperation and bribery he could come up with. He lost billions of revenue due to the sanctions, but never complied with them. This is not contested by anybody. Or perhaps I should add, by anybody with actual knowledge of Iraq. Some people think saying "no" is an argument, whatever the facts. So what is it that makes you believe that intelligence services somehow "knew" that Saddam was doing all this for no reason, since he was innocent of every sanctions-busting missile and WMD, and that I must have been brainwashed by Hannity to believe otherwise? The French had literally billions of reasons to want to give the inspectors "time to do their work", not one of which had anything to do with the actual state of Saddam's weapons programs.

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