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To: stockman_scott who wrote (57521)	11/17/2002 1:29:22 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

So Chapman is advocating waiting until AFTER the fact....right? He must think that Saddam is "waiting" to give materials to terrorists....and must not think that Saddam has ALREADY done that. KLP@wantingwhateverwaterheisdrinking.tilt Could anything be worse than that? Maybe so. Daniel Benjamin, co-author of the new book, "The Age of Sacred Terror," points out that in the chaos of war, Iraq's worst weapons could be smuggled to Al Qaeda by enterprising military officers or by Saddam Hussein, intent on exacting revenge against America by any means possible--creating what Benjamin calls "the greatest proliferation disaster in history." It was possible to deter Saddam Hussein from using chemical and biological weapons. But those weapons may soon be in the hands of fanatical terrorists who can't be deterred--ready for use whenever Osama bin Laden gives the word. Americans are looking forward to a brief, easy conflict that will make the world a safer place, and they may very well get it. But they should also realize that more than any war we've fought in the past half-century, this one carries the real risk of catastrophe.