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To: stockman_scott who wrote (96825)	4/29/2003 9:28:14 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Remember that President Bush made his case for war by warning of a "mushroom cloud." Clearly, Iraq didn't have anything like that — and Mr. Bush must have known that it didn't. I've been wondering about that myself. One of the major selling points for the war was the insistent and repeated declaration that Saddam was within months of creating a nuclear arsenal that would give him hegemony over the Gulf. This was quite a critical point, because whatever CBW he might have had, he had certainly had for years, and they hadn't given him hegemony over anything. Take away the nuke threat,m and a large part of the rationale for the war vanishes. Oddly, all of the talk of searching for WMD is focused on CBW. I haven't heard anybody even talking about nukes or nuke materials, and these aren't things you put together in the kitchen. So where is the stuff? Are we urgently searching, or are we trying to pretend that nobody ever mentioned it? Comment, particularly from those who hysterically predicted that a nuclear-armed Saddam would inevitably create a mini-Soviet Union in the Gulf if we didn't invade at once, is welcome....