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To: KonKilo who wrote (62685)	12/21/2002 5:01:38 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<but I am not willing to simply take the State Dept's word for it. We have been lied to by our government far too many times for that to occur.>> Those links posted by Brumar89 weren't from the State Department or any government agency.

To: KonKilo who wrote (62685)	12/21/2002 8:00:27 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There are about 3 million Iraqis living outside the country now. A number of high level defections have occurred over the past decade. Some of the most significant were Khidhir Hamza who worked in Saddam's nuclear weapons development program ( tms.physics.lsa.umich.edu ), Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri- an engineer who worked on the construction of secret underground research facilities ( iraq.net >, Hussein Kamal, the former head of Iraq's Military Industry and Saddam's son-in-law ( cns.miis.edu ). Here is a good PBS link from 1999 on readings about Iraq: pbs.org Re. Stalin, Idi Amin, and Pol Pot: Stalin ruled a country too powerful for us to take on. Amin and Pol Pot ruled small back-water countries where we had no US interests. The Persian Gulf, due to its massive oil reserves and production, is an important region for the whole world. It is not in our interest to allow a hostile power to emerge which will control this area.