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To: Dan B. who wrote (368423)	3/8/2003 1:24:42 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Chemical and Biological weapons are not appropriate or effective against the kind of threat that Iraq faced beginning in 1991. While such weapons may have blunted the mass clearing of minefields by walking children through them, as Iran did during their war with Iraq, or other massed attacks by unprotected combatants, they are not effective against equiped and trained troops who would consider the use of such weapons as provocation for attacks. Evidence tells that Iraq destroyed it's chemical and biological weapons. I believe it is probably accurate because the weapons are a liability not a deterrent, and have been since Gulf War 1. The only ones that seem to still be around are those which were located and tagged by the inspectors 10 years ago. A few random and unused bits of the weapon casings seem to be mixed in with other ordinance, not enough to be useful and therefore just wasted storage space. I think there is a good chance that Iraqi citizens don't want to be occupied by American troops under a fundamentalist Christain leader. TP

To: Dan B. who wrote (368423)	3/8/2003 10:58:41 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

He is not only naive if he answers yes but he does not believe Hans Blix if he answers yes. So where does that leave him?