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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HG who wrote (9393)	2/17/2003 3:43:02 PM
From: Just_Observing	Respond to of 25898

Germany exaggerated germs claim 16/02/2003 22:37 - (SA) Tony Czuckzka Berlin - The German government said it exaggerated the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes in an internal report last year that claimed Iraq had smallpox stocks and could use them in germ warfare. The health ministry said it drafted the statement in August to back up funding requests for the stockpiling of smallpox vaccine. But it denied that German intelligence has evidence of Iraqi smallpox stocks, contradicting the report's central assertion. Nonetheless, opposition leaders seized on the statement's publication in a Sunday newspaper to renew charges that Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government was playing down the Iraqi threat in public to avoid undermining its anti-war stand. The report warned that a smallpox outbreak could kill about 25 million people - nearly a third of the population - in Germany alone, according to a copy published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. "German intelligence has documented evidence that smallpox samples are stockpiled" in Iraq, the health officials wrote. But health ministry spokesperson Klaus Vater said that while the officials drew on intelligence reports, their risk assessment was hypothetical, "drastic and imprecise." "The health ministry had no documented evidence about smallpox samples in Iraq, and it has none now," Vater said in a statement. Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Otto Schily, said German intelligence has no evidence of Iraqi germ warfare stockpiles. The revelations re-ignited a bitter dispute between Schroeder's government and the conservative opposition about whether Germans are being told the full truth about the threat posed by Iraq. more at news24.com

To: HG who wrote (9393)	2/17/2003 3:54:04 PM
From: Sojourner Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

People like me don't tend to go to rallies. For one thing I watch my 4 year-old most of the time. And I don't really like to be cheering for war, I just feel it may be needed. Israel and the US: I think there is a moral overlap. People who value freedom and democracy need to stick together.

To: HG who wrote (9393)	2/17/2003 5:39:29 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

<< I'm not anti Israel, but i fail to see how US and Israeli interests overlap except in the sphere of dominance over the ME. >> You fail to see how US and Israeli interests overlap, but you see clearly that America and Israel are dominating the ME? <g> Yeh, sure. Syria and the PLO invade and destroy Lebanon. Iraq invades Iran and Kuwait. Iran and Iraq and Syria, among others, sponsor and support terrorism, that threatens the free world. Saudi Arabia is a corrupt Arab dictatorship. So are all of the Arab nations. They are certainly not dominated by anyone. But, of course, you fail to see this. Israel has a tiny speck of land, into which area, the Arab nations have poured hundreds of thousands of poor, uneducated Arab rejects, from their own countries. But, of course, you fail to see this. You fail to see? Your problems encompass a lot more than just seeing! <g>