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To: tejek who wrote (160273)	2/7/2003 9:48:21 AM
From: brian1501	Respond to of 1579121

but if someone asked me in a court of law do I think Powell provided hard evidence/a smoking gun I would have to answer no. What he did do was provide enough damning evidence that the Sec. Council can't ignore the argument of the hawks. It's as close to a smoking gun as you can come without the inspectors actually finding anything. But again, he doesn't need a smoking gun. Supposedly this was Saddam's last chance to comply, and he had no leeway for games. Obviously he has been playing games, and therefore is in material breach. The 'hawks' are the only ones that want to solve the problem. The 'doves' are willing to put up with more of the same forever. This is the typical liberal "look like you're solving the problem, but don't really do anything about it" approach. I missed that one so I went back over the transcript. You'll have to point out to me where in Powell's speech that comment was made. It was in the part of the speech where he was referring to the defector that was at one time in charge of the mobile bio lab. The defector said they had a tight schedule starting at midnight the night before their holy day so that they could run a batch of bio agents on the holy day since they wouldn't get inspected on that day. Brian