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To: Lane3 who wrote (6805)	7/16/2003 7:26:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

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 they had enough to make 5 bombs and they wanted to make 50... I just can't get exercised over smallpox or saran gas like I can over nukes. I could get as exercised over smallpox particularly if it was some variant strain that we where totally unprepared for, but I doubt Saddam has or had any. Tim

To: Lane3 who wrote (6805)	7/16/2003 7:29:33 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 7720

I did not think Iraq posed a threat to us either, at least in the immediate sense. I strongly feel that it was a matter of time until they would have and that this was a one time opportunity to eliminate the threat of future attacks from them. I supported the war for that and other reasons (monstrously despotic regime).

To: Lane3 who wrote (6805)	7/16/2003 8:58:38 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

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. Huh? Biological weapons are far scarier to me than nuclear weapons. Much, much easier to make and use and can be far more deadly. The Spanish flu killed more people than would have been conceivable with a few nuclear weapons, which is generally all that we can expect terrorists or Saddam to have at most. HIV/AIDS has killed how many worldwide? Look at what a few letters infected with anthrax by a single peson apparently working alone produced. Look at SARS. That was a relatively benign virus. What wold be the effect of infecting the D.C. water system with a virulent chemical or biological contaminant? By the time it was identified, how many would be dead? IMO we should be far more worried about biological and chemical agents than nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists.