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To: LindyBill who wrote (59811)	12/4/2002 2:58:20 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi LindyBill; Some interesting quotes from that article: Re: "The competing faction, however, believes that the go-slow approach would do nothing but undermine our credibility, because we have already declared that Saddam has WMD capability. So, if he denies possessing what the United States, through its intelligence, knows what Saddam in fact has, then a failure to call him out would erode our moral clarity." I'm not sure what the author meant by "WMD capability". Every nation on the planet has the capability of making WMDs. Hell, a bright highschool student could make some of them, based on the loose definition they use. And on Saturday Iraq is certainly going to admit to having the capability of making WMDs. What else can they do, claim that they're still stuck in the Bronze Age? Instead, they're going to claim that while they don't have any WMDs, they will "admit" to having gobs of dual use technology. The inspectors are already inspecting factories that are dual use capable. Re: "If the United States says Saddam has "one last chance," but then gives him yet another chance after lying about his WMD program, President Bush's credibility is shot." This is BS, an attempt to paint the President into a corner. That reminds me, by the way, of how the French got sucked into the Mexican intervention with Maximilian. After their initial defeat by the Mexicans at Puebla, May 5th 1863, Napoleon III's advisors told him that French military honor was at stake. Eventually, Napoleon III, like the US in Vietnam, decided that the war was more expensive than the honor. The Bush administration is continuing to fake a hard line on Iraq so that they can take credit for success when Saddam is supposedly separated from WMDs. If they quit with the noise, and Saddam continued with the cooperation (as he would, in order to achieve the elimination of sanctions), it would make it obvious that Iraq was not being forced by the US to suffer inspections. -- Carl