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To: unclewest who wrote (104210)	7/7/2003 7:43:12 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You wrote: "They did predict finding lots of radioactive material and that has been found in large quantities." and then send a source saying that the material was not found. "The United Nations documented hundreds of sources of radioactivity in Iraq before the war. Nobody knows where they are now" from your source: "David Albright, a former U.N. inspector now at Washington’s Institute for Science and International Security, says the Pentagon’s poison-bean counters seem to be approaching the job of looking for weapons on the principle that “Bush said so, Powell said so—let’s find ‘em.” And Albright, for one, thinks they may not come up with much. In his experience, the Iraqis during the 1990s had established a clear pattern of destroying anything they thought the inspectors might find, with the idea that Saddam’s scientists could always reconstitute the stuff for him later. Of course that’s one reason it was worth eliminating Saddam. But the continued presence of inspectors might have achieved the same end. And those scientists still know how to do their jobs, but we no longer know where they are. They, or less-talented types, might also have stolen the stuff they need to make some fearsome new weapons. Stuff like cesium." stacks.msnbc.com