To: tejek who wrote (172646 ) 7/31/2003 4:35:09 PM From: TimF Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573213 "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 existence. It means they couldn't know that they where not still in existence. 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? That's probably most of it, but probably not all of it. Particularly easy would be to make chemical weapons and a pesticide plant. You really wouldn't have to do any conversion. Other chemical plants might take a little work but it would not be difficult, or that difficult to hide from anyone without extensive inside knowledge. 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. Cite one expert who says that Iraq could not possibly produce chemical weapons. I doubt you'll find one they wouldn't want to destroy their credibility that way. I might be able to produce chemical weapons if I tried hard enough. A Japanese cult produced and used chemical weapons. 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? A relatively hands on VP with interest in oil production and oil markets... it doesn't strike me as that unusual that he might have an interest in middle eastern (including Iraqi) oil production. Also he wouldn't have to be all that concerned to ask for a briefing or documentation about it. It wouldn't surprise me if Cheney asks for information about all sorts of things. It would be a bad thing if government officials had to think "hmm will anyone think it suspicious that I'm asking for information about this?" any time they are curious about something. 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. No it wouldn't. A few billion would do it easy. In a pinch a few hundred million could support a small program. "Nonsense. A community college's biology department could store them." Do you really think Iraq has community colleges? Your comment makes no [n] sense! I would think Iraq has some form of higher education, but I wasn't suggesting that the weapons would be stored in a community college but rather then anything a community college could safely store could also be stored by a country with over 20 million people, billions of dollars from oil sales and people with advanced degrees in the field working on the problem. 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. You can intuit what you want about Bush but unless you have solid facts with tons of publicly available evidence it doesn't make much sense to say that your opponents know that you are right about your intuition. Tim