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To: Bilow who wrote (100672)	6/8/2003 3:01:13 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bilow....Things don't always happen to script. The left and anti war folks was/were very wrong too....said that going into Iraq would kill thousands of American troops....would kill hundreds of thousands of civilians.....and go back and see the articles...there were many, and most of them were wrong. The warheads were pretty certain that the US would have little problem finding Iraqi WMDs:

To: Bilow who wrote (100672)	6/8/2003 3:08:42 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq didn't use any. My goodness, the US has been attacking Iraq since 1991, enforcing the no-fly zone.. And the Iraqis were beating up on their Shiite population for years as well.. And in neither case did they use chemical weapons. But we still found 'em in 1995, when they got "knarked off" by Saddam's son-in-law who defected to Jordan... No one can explain why they didn't use them. But it was apparently that US leadership truly believed that they were vulnerable to a chemical attack by the fact that all US troops were required to wear chemical protective suits. But my theory is this. Either they have buried them in places where only a select few of the most trusted members of Saddam's clan know the location of, biding their time for some future opportunity to regain power. OR they were shipped to Syria for safe-keeping. After all, Iraq provided Syria with $1 Billion worth of free oil every year. But the question is what the Iraqis received in exchange for that oil? It's clear that Bashir Assad has but a tentative hold on power in that country, acting mainly as a figurehead to keep the various power factions in the country from fighting one another for power. It's altogether possible that one faction of Syria's Baathist party made a "sweetheart deal" with Saddam to hold those chemical weapons for them. But it's still entirely possible they are buried in some remote location in Iraq. Hawk