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To: kumar who wrote (74498)	2/16/2003 5:09:18 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<Without getting religious - Onus is on Iraq to prove none exist, and UN folks to verify. Inspections are not intened to snoop around looking for stuff. >>> A little math show why: Plan A. If one had 100,000 inspectors (people) who could march ten feet apart across Iraq and Iraq was a completely flat desert it would take them well over a year to cover the ground on a visual seach. And they would find nothing since it is hidden from view. Oppppps I forgot to say they would need water, cooks, food, shelter, hospitals, doctors, maternity wards, transportation, post offices, rotation for tired inspectors and an unearthy devotion to an insane project. However Iraq has many streams and vast marshes and impossible terrain in the mountains filled with somewhat unfriendly armed natives Might have to take some arms along- perhaps a full battalion. So it could take 5 years Well, so much for plan A , go to plan B Plan B 100,000 divide up into teams of 10 each and each team is allowed 2 hours to thoroughly search every house and structure in the land. With 22mm inhabitants, I would guess there is one major structure for each person,In the form of houses, warehouses, manufacturing plants, post offices, banks, stores, farms and barns Military barracks, armouries , launch facilities. With 10,000 teams at work, the job to search those buildings would require 550 working days, and knocking off on religious halidays would bring it nigh to two years.And assuming Saddam did not shift anything around on holidays there is a good chance to find something. But I want no part of it, since trying to get the people to give up the keys to 22mm residences/businesses for a search is going to be veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery difficult. Since it would take the proposed 1000 inspectors 200 years to do that job, I will quit here. What say we just send in a Seal team to kidnap a bunch of their scientists and let them tell us where the vile stuff is located? Sig