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

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (2527)	1/20/2003 3:04:15 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

>>> The most dangerous of these distortions is the Administration claim that it has evidence Iraq is close to developing nuclear weapons. Remember, for example, those aluminum tubes we heard so much about as the President beat the drums of war? "Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons," Bush told us. Surely his advisors must have had at least an inkling that, as an International Atomic Energy Agency report stated, they were the wrong kind of tubes for producing nuclear weapons materials. The IAEA report also states clearly that Iraq would find it very difficult to develop a nuclear weapons program while inspectors were present.<<< Hey, does anyone remember the tubes? Ain't talkin' 'bout no band either. Indeed, most of us remember. They were a big-ticket item back when Bush and Blair gave their war sweep speeches. But these tubes, right now, are sorta like, well, er, ah ... nothun'! Right? Right!

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (2527)	1/20/2003 3:08:20 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

>>>The IAEA report also states clearly that Iraq would find it very difficult to develop a nuclear weapons program while inspectors were present.<<< Who, in their right mind, would prefer war over this? Consider that even if no weapons of mass destruction are found and the UN inspections team conducts as thorough of an investigation as a thorough investigation can be, what then? Obviously, the sactions against Iraq will be lifted. However, it's important to note that just 'cause the sanctions get lifted it doesn't mean the inspections have to end. And future inspections invariably will be even more to the point, better ones even when you consider the entire groundwork for them will have had nearly 10 years as a foundation. Call it maturity! So who really wants to go to war, and why?