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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (96279)	4/25/2003 6:16:23 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

All those gas masks and other protective equipment that were found I imagine were for......mosquito control?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (96279)	4/25/2003 6:26:45 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The Galloway story is interesting in its own right, and deserves some discussion. Galloway story is indistinguishable from the worst kind of mudslinging. How will the damage be undone if he is never proven guilty? Having the liberation coincide with the Hussein festival was very convenient for the clerics. LOL! I had never heard to it refer to as "festival" it is in every way the opposite of festival. And it did not coincide with the liberation. The time for it was way back in early March. Somebody just chose to run a make up parade to show his muscles. During the war, NPR reported that troops had found missiles filled with mustard gas and sarin. Has anybody seen followup on that story? I don't recall any substantial story that was not retracted later on. I do remember a couple of stories which said the missiles could carry chemicals and one story I think that said one rocket out of the whole stack showed at some time in the past it had been filled with mustard gas. I agree with you that getting to the truth takes time. But surely you can see that the Iraqi boogieman did not live up to the hype and that there is no reason why Blix should have been denied the few more weeks which he had asked for. ST

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (96279)	4/25/2003 6:34:47 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<As for WMDs, rest easy on that story. They will turn up. > The U.S. Army has already looked at the 100 or so most likely sites, and found nothing. They aren't waiting for lab tests, there was nothing to test. Now, they are just waiting and hoping that some Iraqi comes forward with evidence or locations. I can see the rationalizations already beginning. Before anybody forgets (there will be a willful effort to forget), I suppose someone here needs to collect and post all the categorical statements by U.S. and UK officials, stating with 100% certainty, that Iraq had WMD. Otherwise, fairly soon the response will be, "Are you still talking about that dead issue? Besides, nobody really said we were certain about the WMD........and that wasn't the main reason we went to war.......nobody emphasized it at the time.....they destoyed them all at the last minute, with all the evidence, while being overrun by U.S. tanks, yada, yada, yada." Re the NPR reports: at the time, there was a group of breathless sensational reports that turned out to be hot air.