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To: Dayuhan who wrote (96847)	4/29/2003 9:33:27 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Daddy Warbucks Is Alive and Well ___________________________________________ by Joe Conason www2.observer.com <<...The prospects for instilling democracy and staunching terrorism in Iraq have dimmed since our soldiers knocked over that Saddam Hussein statue. While the American military’s triumph over the dictator’s enfeebled and ill-motivated army was pre-ordained, the political triumph of liberal democratic values is not. When American forces depart, what they leave behind may well be a Shiite theocracy, supported and influenced by the terror-masters and mullahs in Teheran. In the meantime, American corporations will at least have minted a few billion bucks...>>

To: Dayuhan who wrote (96847)	4/29/2003 10:17:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

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. The testimony before the Senate last summer said that Saddam had the equipment to make and bomb, and the scientists, but lacked the weapons-grade uranium. How long he would take to get it would depend on who would sell it to him. They are looking for the scientists, what more are you asking for?