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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (67978)	1/23/2003 11:00:23 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<...More over the US government would be guilty of duplicity if the Iraqi WMDs do not exist...>> Good point. Our Government has lied to us before...Think back to VietNam...Its time to ask THE TOUGH QUESTIONS NOW and get some compelling answers before we go to war. The other night on a CNBC show Richard Holbrooke (former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) said the Administration has simply NOT made the case for war...He also thinks the mess we've made with our North Korean policy has not been helpful. -s2@lookingforanswers.com

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (67978)	1/23/2003 11:02:04 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

Noel, I think we will all know where they are when they are captured. If the UN is told now, Saddam can move them and he will kill the sources of the intelligence. Think that the war comes first before we actually start locating and destroying these things. I am just guessing here. Pehaps if the UN had more info, saddam would kick them out and move wmd before we moved. All this still looks like a video game to me. mike PS i didnt mean to imply that you personally defended saddam or wmds. Some do believe saddams story though about him having nothing left and thats sad. S

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (67978)	1/23/2003 11:08:57 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

U.S. Set to Demand That Allies Agree Iraq Is Defying U.N. nytimes.com This article is worth a look, it has a boatload of sidebar links too Bush administration officials said today that next week they would confront France, Germany and other skeptics of military action against Iraq by demanding that they agree publicly that Iraq had defied the United Nations Security Council. The officials, expressing exasperation with the refusal of longtime allies to back the United States, said they were vigorously debating whether to seek a second United Nations resolution authorizing force against Iraq. At the least, they said, they will insist that the nations opposed to the American position acknowledge that Iraq has not complied with resolutions on its weapons of mass destruction. . . . Administration officials said their strategy was based on the belief that there might never be a "smoking gun" proving Iraq's possession of illegal weapons. Accordingly, they acknowledged that the case must be made in a negative fashion: that Iraq has failed to disprove the contentions of the United States and others about its weapons of mass destruction. The administration asserts, without offering evidence, that Iraq has thwarted inspectors by hiding the weapons. Shoot, I coulda sworn Andy Card promised something soon on the WMD front recently. Has a void been discovered in the war marketing plan? Edit: found the Card story, #reply-18450652 White House promises 'smoking gun intelligence' opinion.telegraph.co.uk. White House officials have reassured Republicans by signalling that America and Britain are prepared to release powerful intelligence evidence to cement the case for war against Iraq. Andy Card, the White House chief of staff, and Karl Rove, President George W Bush's chief political strategist, have each indicated privately that the administration has proof that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.