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To: Sig who wrote (113818)	9/3/2003 3:49:13 PM
From: aladin	Respond to of 281500

Sig, Its like a brick wall out there. In '98 there were plenty of weapons in the UN dossier, in 2003 they are all gone. Some are now claiming they never existed. Now the real leap of imagination is that a Government that would keep records (including video of executions) on all the dead in mass graves around Basra, would have no record of when and where the weapons were destroyed. We are asked to believe that Iraqi exiles or our governments sexed up charges that were accepted norms in '98, and whose destruction could not be documented by the Iraqi's. So whom to believe? Remember if Iraq had provided documentation to the UN - even as late as Blix - on all of the '98 inventory and its disposition, we would not only have not had a war, we would have been forced to drop sanctions. The FACT that Iraq chose to avoid this accountability is never explained. John

To: Sig who wrote (113818)	9/3/2003 5:53:09 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

Thanks for reminding me of the Jan. 27th report. It's interesting to review the later reports as well. The progression of the reports is, as you may recall, away from war and towards a recognition that Iraq was disarming it self. "Today, of course, they and many other known weapons are still unaccounted for. Does it follow, therefore, that they never existed? Or does it make more sense to conclude that the weapons were there and that either we'll find them or we'll find out what happened to them?" You might want to read this source. reliefweb.int