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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (14599)	9/14/2002 2:44:47 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

You're living in a Mary Poppins world. Where the good guys are good and the bad guys are bad. Giving the time frame of the events, the President of the US and at least some members of the Cabinet had to know through the daily intelligence briefings that Iraq was using biological and chemical weapons. Yet through some miraculous oversight, they just simply forgot to inquire what might be exported to Iraq. In addition, they forgot to stop any exports to a country using biological and chemical weapons. If that had been the case, this would have been an inefficient way to accomplish it. Much more effective would have been to provide the weapons already ready to use. That would be really stupid [though not impossible]. They had enough sense to cover the illegal transfer of conventional weapons to Iran by the use of a third party country. Bio-chem weapons have markers. You should have learned from the anthrax investigation that analyses can be performed on the residues to determine the country of origin. These people aren't so stupid that they're going to leave "US made" bio-chem weapons fingerprints over the mid-east. Let Iraq put their fingerprints when the materials are weaponized. Why would they possibly want to be efficient anyway? The goal was to have the Iran-Iraq war go on in an indefinite stalemate. Isn't it ironic that the US accuses Cuba of exporting bioterror materials, but has no proof; yet Cuba could accuse the US of exporting bioterror material and provide the proof.