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To: TimF who wrote (6802)	7/16/2003 7:19:26 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7720

If you prove Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Africa or anywhere else then you solidly support the idea that they are trying to get nukes but if you cast doubt on (or even disprove) the idea that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa then you don't show that Iraq is not trying to build nukes. True. OTOH, why would they be trying to buy uranium in Africa if they had a stash of any fissionable material from any other source. If you think they're shopping in Africa, then you probably concluded they don't already have a stash. If they don't already have a stash, can they be dangerous enough to warrant a war? It doesn't prove that they don't have the stuff from some other source, only that the "policymakers" though it likely that they didn't or they wouldn't have used Africa as their trump card. technically they are not the only things that are considered WMD. Yeah, I know. Somehow during this Iraq exercise the definition of WMD shifted. I fussed about it at the time. It seems to me there is a brighter line between nukes and other alleged WMD than between what are now being called WMD and traditional destructive media. I just can't get exercised over smallpox or saran gas like I can over nukes. You can't kill more people with them than you can with plain old big bombs. So, while the convention has changed, I still equate WMD with nukes and I don't see much indication that Iraq was any threat to us in the nuke department.