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To: H-Man who wrote (374110)	3/19/2003 11:06:40 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

it is your assessment that Saddam does not have WMD WMD is a nice catchall phrase that can mean different things to different people. I don't think Saddam or his military have more than token amounts of VX, Sarin, Mustard Gas, Smallpox, Anthrax, and no nuclear weapons. TP

To: H-Man who wrote (374110)	3/25/2003 4:51:56 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 769667

So just for clarity, it is your assessment that Saddam does not have WMD ? - YES! In the summer of 1995 Saddam's then-son-in-law, Lieut. Gen. Hussein Kamel, former minister of Iraq's military industry and the person in charge of its nuclear/chemical/biological programs, defected and provided what was deemed scrupulously accurate, detailed accounts of those weapons. Kamel's information has been cited as central evidence and a key reason for attacking Iraq. ............ the Administration had excised a central component of Kamel's testimony--that he had personal knowledge that Iraq had "destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them." To be sure, Kamel said, Iraq had not abandoned its WMD ambitions, had retained the design and engineering details, and was likely to return to production given an opportunity. But his last information was that Iraq's VX arsenal no longer existed. According to the story, UN inspectors had reasons to hush up this revelation, as they were trying to bluff Saddam into revealing more. But what is Powell's excuse for using only half of Kamel's claim? thenation.com