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To: Lou Weed who wrote (99471)	5/29/2003 11:47:10 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<The issue is that we were told he had a massive arsenal of them NOW and that they were an imminent threat.> Yes. And a corollary is, we were told the UN/French/German/China-backed inspections weren't working, and there was no time to let them work. Nobody is saying "Iraq never had WMD". Another straw man to knock over. The most likely scenario, is that Saddam ordered all his WMD destroyed, about the time our soldiers entered Kabul. He, like Bush, is a Control Freak, and he saw inspections as a violation of his nation's sovereignty, so he only cooperated with inspections grudgingly, and under duress. But he did cooperate, after the Taliban fell. That's my guess.

To: Lou Weed who wrote (99471)	5/30/2003 12:28:41 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

To argue he never had them is wrong, we all know he HAD them prior to '91 The forfeiting of $200 billion happened during the 90s, as did the throwing out of out the inspectors in 1998. When Hussein Kamel defected in 1995 he spilled the beans on bio and nuclear programs, remember? So he had them 1998 and after - unless he tossed out the inspectors in order to get rid of his programs in such a way that would keep him under the sanctions. That's why this whole argument is absurd.