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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (118827)	11/6/2003 10:10:55 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, Saddam's accounting was terrible, and UN inspectors were there to ascertain whether it was lousy record keeping or because there were still WMD-related materials. But all of this is irrelevant. The UN did not invade Iraq.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (118827)	11/6/2003 10:46:48 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Maybe they destroyed them. Maybe they shipped them somewhere else.. Maybe they buried them.. It doesn't matter.. What matters is that they remain unaccounted for. That's interesting. Iraq did identify a location where they claimed they destroyed the weapons and the UN verified that there were residual chemicals that confirmed that such weapons were there. Iraq had started an effort with the UN to prove the quantities involved ... but remarkably the US put an end to it. And it just isn't that we haven't found any WMD. There is no documentation that there was any WMD; there doesn't appear to be anyone that knows where they are [or were] ..... What matters is that they remain unaccounted for. Suppose just for sake of discussion we assume that WMD did exist in Iraq prior to the recent military fling. Let's assume there were thousands of tons of them. Where are they now? Let's skip over the "Iraq is a big country" BS.....we have no idea under whose control they are or even in what country they are in. For all we know they are sitting in a suburb of Washington D.C.....or Seattle, or London. We don't know. We made a huge strategic error in invading a country and not being 100% certain that we could take immediate custody of said WMD. We can't even find one stinking shell let alone the alleged tons of them....so you feel happy that we invaded a country and we no longer know where and under whose control these WMD are? You better start praying real hard that there wasn't any WMD in Iraq, because if there were, we're in deep doo-doo. jttmab