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To: LindyBill who wrote (60669)	12/9/2002 4:22:51 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi LindyBill; A comment on the Iraqis and their inability to document how they destroyed some of their missing WMDs. For those who would suggest that "WMDs are not marmalade", I provide this informative link that would suggest that even the world's leading country can't keep track of its WMDs: INEEL team identifies mystery munitions After rusty, World War II-era U.S. warheads were uncovered on the Solomon Islands, the Army called in experts from DOE’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. Nuclear physicist Gus Caffrey and three colleagues assessed the 109 warheads this summer on Johnston Atoll, 800 miles southwest of Hawaii--without opening the munitions up. They identified the warhead contents with the Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy (PINS) system, which Caffrey developed. PINS emits neutrons that bounce into the elements of a chemical agent, producing a signature pattern of gamma rays. They discovered that the warheads contain mustard gas, and can be safely destroyed in the Johnston Atoll chemical weapons incinerator. ornl.gov More links for the same discovery: exn.ca So when Iraq says they have "no" WMDs, I doubt that they're telling the truth. They, like the US itself, probably has rusty shit stacked away in forgotten warehouses, or badly disposed of in hastily dug holes in the ground. But is it really moral to hold Iraq to a standard that even we are unable to achieve? -- Carl