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To: tejek who wrote (167061)	4/9/2003 2:58:57 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1583791

How do you think others will react if they don't find significant numbers of WMD? There will be a negative reaction, but not a disaster. People hassle with their income taxes for that long. Cuba hassled us for years........we didn't invade them. NK is hassling Japan and indirectly us.....no one is invading them Income tax evasion, or even anything Cuba is doing isn't as serious. NK has nukes and has tons conventional and chemical weapons that could hit Seoul, lesser amounts that could hit Tokyo, Alaska and Hawaii, and perhaps even the Pacific NW coast of the continental US. The technical pseudo legal justification for attacking NK is less. The preemptive justification is probably even greater but the danger is much greater as well. Also the ability of North Korea to pay for its own reconstruction is less. Overall if you invade you get a lot more danger plus more of a mess even if the worst of the possible dangerous don't actually happen. I am basing it on the fact that we have found many major arms depots and no WMD were in them. One depot in the South has 27 barracks-like bldgs with wall to ceiling weapons but no WMD. If there is one thing the inspectors did do, they drove the WMDs deep underground, probably literally in some cases. We will find them as Iraqi's who worked in the program no longer have to fear Saddam and get tempted by the money that we are offering for information. And from your earlier post - If there are no major stores of WMD found, it was working. No it wasn't working. The sanctions and inspections regime could not be kept in place for ever and even if they could they where causing a lot of suffering for the Iraqi people, who where already suffering due to Saddam. And with the inspection regime as it was we would never be confident that Iraq wasn't creating WMD even if they were not (and the chance of that is IMO below 1%) Tim