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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (74260)	2/15/2003 3:47:17 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Senator Bob Graham, who headed the Senate Intelligence Committee last summer, asked the CIA to give him a candid estimate of the likelihood of Saddam Hussein's using weapons of mass destruction. The report, which the government at first sought to hide, was that the prospect was "very low" for the "foreseeable future." However, the report did note that if Saddam were attacked, he might unleash such weapons. It is not the fear of Saddam using WMD, it is the fear of him having them and using them as leverage. It is his explicit goal to establish Iraqi hegemony over Middle East oil. WMD would allow him to do that with minimal resistance. How would it make you feel knowing that Saddam controlled 50% of the worlds oil production. I don't like the WMD argument but let's make the right argument. Paul