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To: Dayuhan who wrote (101874)	6/18/2003 7:53:52 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Are you convinced that this could not have happened, or do you just not care?<< I don't think it's impossible for the data to be faked, but I doubt it very much, and I also doubt that the current Bush administration faked it, if it was faked. I don't know anyone on this board who worked harder than I did at collecting reports about WMD in Iraq going back for decades. At various points in time, I've considered using the topic of the US role in Iraq's development of CBW for a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation because I thought it was so interesting, although I am going to have to wait until I put the boys through college or free up some more money somehow. I "know" the weapons were there, in the sense that you can know anything that you've only read and not experienced personally. I also "know" that the capability was there. If all of this was invented, it was invented long before Dubya became president, because we've all been reading about it and hearing about it for years. Didn't you ever hear of Gulf War Syndrome? For example, Senator Byrd has been very assiduous at criticizing prior administrations for providing WMD to Iraq. That was one of his main reasons for opposing the war, that "we gave them" WMD and therefore "we" were hypocrites. And I spent many, many hours collecting data and arguing that what really happened was that the US government did not prevent dual use technology from being sold to Iraq because after Iraq was taken off the list of terrorist states in 1992 there was no mechanism whereby the sale of dual use technology could be prohibited. I did not respond to the argument that we shouldn't attack Iraq because Saddam would use WMD against us, but it was made loudly and frequently, by (for one) Karen Lawrence. So please excuse me if I scoff at the present argument that the WMD were never there.