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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (154628)	3/22/2003 8:15:08 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Lizzie, you're still looking for a simple answer. It's not about oil. It's not ONLY about WMDs. It's about an entirely new approach to the problems of Middle East terrorism, oppression, and instability. And this new approach scares the hell out of conventional thinkers whose policies gave us Saddam Hussein.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (154628)	3/22/2003 10:14:08 PM
From: hueyone	Respond to of 164684

I agree with you that finding some WMDs or evidence that Saddam is building WMDs is important to restoring our credibility. While I support our President, but trust Powell more than I do Bush, I kind of cringe everytime I hear that this war is like the Tampa Bay Bucanneers playing the local high school football team, and that Saddam's army is so weakened from the Gulf War, it is only one third the size it was last time. This makes it more difficult for me to buy the premise that Saddam is such a global threat. On the other hand, the problem with WMDs, should he have them or be getting close to have working models, is that someone can be a major threat with WMDs even if they have a pitiful, conventional army. And we already know for certain that Saddam has used biological weapons in the past on his own people. I believe I read somewhere that just one guy with one of those former Russian suitcase size nuclear bombs, of which some are currently unaccounted for, could blow up half of Manhattan. This is a very grim thought if indeed true. Regards, Huey