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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123259)1/15/2004 3:19:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Saddam was a Stalinist/Hitlerite wannabe. I'm a Tiger Woods wannabe. We try hard, but really can't put it together. Look at Saddam's last bunker and compare it with Hitler's. That'll be a similar comparison with their record-keeping. The right idea, but lacking in implementation. Imagine keeping a pack of Arabs in line and then imagine a regiment of goose-steppers. I know which I'd prefer to try to get rank and file correctly aligned. Yes, yes, I know it's naughty to express stereotypes these days. Too bad.

I'm sure some half-baked records were kept. As meticulous as could be with a rabble in charge of them.

It's pretty clear that if he had weapons of mass destruction, the mass that would be destroyed would be relatively trivial. Look at the Scuds he fired at Israel in 1990 for example. The just went plonk on the ground. It wasn't like a V2 onslaught.

Saddam is a control freak, but frustrated at maintaining control, he was mostly reduced to murdering people who didn't do things right or crossed him. Which still didn't get the control he wanted [even after killing people pretty close to him such as his daughters' husbands and sundry others].

Face it, WMD was a load of nonsense. A load of wishful thinking on the part of Saddam and a Cassius Bellicosius for the rabid right wing-nuts running the PNAC. They were a perfect fit for each other.

Mqurice



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123259)1/15/2004 10:03:39 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<But I do know they existed> Based on what? Pure speculation? That explains much about what you say concerning Iraq -- it is easy to know everything with complete certainty when all you need is pure speculation to make you "know" with complete certainty. The only thing that seems certain to me is that you are driven by a political agenda and you argue stridently in its pursuit -- no matter how feeble the political case you are making.


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