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To: Falcon who wrote (35885)	2/23/1998 12:13:00 AM
From: dwight martin	Read Replies (1) of 61433

OFF TOPIC Falcon: Many bio-weapons are low-tech. For example, It would be easy for anyone who has access to a bathtub in a temperature-controlled room to brew up plenty of anthrax in a few weeks. Assuming then (without deciding) that the Iraqis are inclined to use bio-weapons against us, what are the chances that any military campaign could eliminate all the temperature-controlled rooms in a country the size of Texas? Zero. Second, again indulging your assumption, what (other than a degree of stupidity I do not believe the Iraqis possess) would prevent them from finding (or having already found) several nice tempereature-controlled rooms in, say, L.A., Philly, or Houston? The questions answers itself. Therefore, the bombing is not designed to and cannot be expected to forestall or even impede the anthractions you fear. Indeed, if I were The Crazy One, I would be inclined to respond to bombing with the only effective (and probably untraceable) weapons left to me (and I think you know what they would be). Finally, I don't think TCO cares if we kill some of his people-- he'll just use it to his own propaganda advantage in the Arab world. So-- why bomb now?

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