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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17867)	11/22/2002 7:47:52 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

What was France's prime interest here? not money of course not! OVERLOOKED story is William Broad's piece in the November 19 New York Times, which summarizes some of the history on Iraq's weapons program. Broad mentions in passing that France and Russia sold Saddam 110 pounds of highly enriched uranium, enough to manufacture between 3 and 10 Hiroshima-strength atomic bombs. These are the people taking the moral high ground in the debate about regime change in Iraq. The piece also notes that Iraqis told inspectors that as part of their biological weapons program, they had produced enough deadly microbes to kill all the people on earth several times over. The piece's only unintentionally comic moment comes from David Albright, head of the Institute for Science and International Security: "We still don't know why they wanted nuclear weapons and what they intended to do with them." Why do tyrants want weapons? History provides a few clues. David Brooks is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard.