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To: TimF who wrote (172610)	7/26/2003 3:37:47 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573123

Any facilities that existed after 1991 were destroyed. Their destruction was not a secret; they were forced to destroy them by the weapons inspectors. The inspectors themselves talked about unaccounted for parts of the WMD program. Yes, so what? That's why they went in to inspect last fall. That does not mean the parts were still in existance. Also if you have a program at all, and you have undestroyed chemical plants (which Iraq had and still has) Are you talking petro chemical? its not at all hard to convert them to chemical weapons making facilities and its possible (if harder) to do so without leaving much evidence. Conversion can be difficult if they are petro chemical. They are if they Even with 150,000 "inspectors" and with Saddam and his cronies out of power, the Baathist could be creating chemical weapons as we speak, even if not large amounts of the most effective types. Your point might apply to nuclear weapons programs but not chem weapons. Not according to the experts, there is no there there. Clearly, Powell was in the same throes of paranoia Not half as clearly as those who take Cheney's examination of Iraq's oil industry as evidence that Cheney was planning an invasion to grab Iraqi oil for the last few years. I didn't say he was planning an invasion but I am curious as to why the VP of the US is concerned about the oil assets of another nation. Don't you find that even slightly curious.....esp. when its the first country we decide to invade? Then why can't they find the facilities? There are none, that's why. The sucker was broke. The best he could afford was building palaces. For half of what he spent on palaces he could easily have a chem weapons program. No he couldn't.......most of the parts, if not all, would have had to been bought on the black market because of the UN sanctions........it would have been prohibitively expensive. Even if they could create bio WMD, they had no place to store them. They would degrade in a very short period of time. Nonsense. A community college's biology department could store them. Do you really think Iraq has community colleges? Your comment makes no [n] sense! These people believe that if the gov't is made up of Reps., it should do whatever it thinks is best and the people be damned. They think they believe in democracy but they really don't. If this is what you really believe rather then a quick blast brought on from anger or frustration then your opinion about Republicans and/or conservatives seems rather paranoid. I didn't say all Reps. If DRay or the people on the Bush thread really know that it was all just a bunch of lies then they must have access to information that is not generally available to the public. Not all info is gained from facts. Humans have the ability to intuit info thru observation. If one observed Mr. Bush speak on these subjects last fall or this past winter, one could intuit that the truth had been compromised. I did intuit that and said so on this thread to much derision. ted