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To: GST who wrote (113017)	8/27/2003 6:31:49 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I see. They did such an outstanding job disarming Iraq that they couldn't account for it, instead leaving such documentation up to the Iraqis to produce a woefully inadequate report. Is that how it works? Paperwork moving too fast?

To: GST who wrote (113017)	8/27/2003 1:20:16 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi GST; Re: "Iraq was systematically disarmed by UN weapons inspectors." I don't think it's that simple. I think that Iraq was largely forced to destroy its WMD programs by Bush's threat to attack, but there was another factor and that was the attraction of getting sanctions lifted. Bush's big error (under the supposition that it was not his intent to invade Iraq no matter the legal, ethical, moral, material and human costs) was in not realizing how effective his policy of brinksmanship had been. -- Carl