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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1394)	1/14/2003 11:54:22 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Below is a Christian Science Monitor excerpt concerning destruction of Saddam's WDM arsenal. If you read the article you'll note that several points of view are expressed as to what Saddam's potential is today. >>>UNSCOM records show that by 1998 it had accounted for or destroyed 817 of 819 Scud missiles, but could not trace seven Iraqi-made missiles that had been listed as operational at the end of the Gulf War. Nearly 39,000 chemical munitions and more than 3,000 tons of agents and precursors were destroyed. But never found were 500 mustard-gas shells, 25 "special warheads," 150 aerial bombs, and several hundred tons of chemicals for the nerve agent VX. Expert committees in 1998 found Iraq's so-called "final" disclosures to be "flawed."<<< csmonitor.com Here is an interesting report relative to an alternative to Bush going to war: >>>For example, with regard to Iraq's biological and chemical weapons program, they note that these materials degrade over time and lose their lethality. In the absence of production facilities to create new toxins, Iraq's biological agents will gradually deteriorate. And despite Iraq?s obstruction and deception, the United Nations Special Commission has supervised the destruction of Iraq?s main biological weapons and production facility and destroyed equipment and growth media at four other major facilities. Similarly, with regard to chemical weapons, all production facilities and thousands of tonnes of chemical agents have been destroyed. In any remaining agents, including VX nerve agent, precursors would degrade without new supplies from a functioning production facility.<<< atimes.com And the below site is interesting reading as well. muslimedia.com So please do read all of this and let me know what you think. Thanks.