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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (19078)	1/30/2003 5:31:30 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

""Give us something, give us the basis," the diplomat said, summarizing the Russian position." Weapons of Mass Distraction, OK: But Where They? counterpunch.com "The US has had Iraq under the closest possible surveillance for 12 years. There are satellites galore, silently imaging the entire country by photography and electronic means at all times of day and night. There are devices that "see" through roofs and into the ground. There are satellites scooping up every conversation by radio, telephone and computer. Additionally, US and British aircraft operate daily over two thirds of Iraq in their illegally-imposed "no-fly zones". Intelligence gathering aircraft fly in these zones and along the Iraq border. They complement the satellites in gathering vast quantities of information about Iraqi defences (and civilian commercial enterprises, in preparation for the US takeover of the country) and practice guiding strike aircraft to a multitude of targets, not only in the "no-fly" areas but also in the third of Iraq that they permit to be under central government control. Iraq is quite a large country (six tenths the size of Texas) but there is not an inch that has not been closely examined. (The US proposal to send U-2 reconnaissance aircraft to "help" the UN was an absurd afterthought, and intended solely to confuse matters in order that Washington could claim non-cooperation by Baghdad.) It is fatuous for the Bush administration to say that information cannot be provided to the UN, or evidence to the world, about Iraq's alleged NBC arsenal because "we don't want to betray our sources", as if these were Mr Saddam Hussein's valet, PA or ADC. (Sorry, guys.) Show us the pictures of the nuclear weapons plants, and the rockets and the canisters of chemical weapons. Or provide transcripts of intercepted communications indicating existence of these things. The methods themselves aren't secret. It is quite possible Iraq has some very nasty weapons. OK: where are they? And if you produce evidence now, why did you take so long?"