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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24686)	6/8/2003 9:20:34 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

It seems those trailers aren't very suited to making weapons after all. I guess when Junior sets the standard for critical thinking in this administration you can't tell what conclusions will leap out. <font color=purple>It's not built and designed as a standard fermenter," he said of the central tank. "Certainly, if you modify it enough you could use it. But that's true of any tin can." </font> nytimes.com <font color=purple> "I have no great confidence that it's a fermenter," a senior analyst with long experience in unconventional arms said of a tank for multiplying seed germs into lethal swarms. The government's public report, he added, "was a rushed job and looks political." This analyst had not seen the trailers himself, but reviewed evidence from them. The skeptical experts said the mobile plants lacked gear for steam sterilization, normally a prerequisite for any kind of biological production, peaceful or otherwise. Its lack of availability between production runs would threaten to let in germ contaminants, resulting in failed weapons. Second, if this shortcoming were somehow circumvented, each unit would still produce only a relatively small amount of germ-laden liquid, which would have to undergo further processing at some other factory unit to make it concentrated and prepare it for use as a weapon. Finally, they said, the trailers have no easy way for technicians to remove germ fluids from the processing tank. <font color=black> TP

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24686)	6/8/2003 9:26:12 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Explain to us why the Iraqis deliberately produced a report that claimed they expended more weapons than they actually possessed?? (since you claim they don't even exist)... They, the Iraqis, believed they existed.. because they built them and were required to account for them to Saddam. But somehow, somewhere, they disappeared. POOF!! Into thin air... I don't claim they never existed. According to the Iraqi head of the weapons program many were destroyed in 1991, particularly the facilities. Then in 1995, under new pressure by inspectors, they destroyed the rest along with documents to keep the whole thing out of the inspector's hands. It was apparent to the Iraqi's by that time that chemical and bilogical weapons did not make sense against the U.S. or U.N. and that they continued to create trouble, in the form of prolonged sanctions, everytime some document showed up. So they got rid of them.