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To: GST who wrote (123271)	1/15/2004 2:29:44 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Based on the knowledge of standard modus operandi for Saddam's Iraq, which was a centralized totalitarian police state, upon the testimony of every single authoratative witness - reporters, intelligence officers from every major service, reporters such as John Burns, human rights activists such as Kenan Makiya, who saw the state in operation. Whatever mid-level officers did, they did on orders from the top. Initiative could get you killed, and often did. If they did something so important as destroy WMD weapons without records, the orders for doing that would have had to come from Saddam's inner circle. Or the guy who did it would have been shot. He could have been shot anyway, if Saddam wanted a scapegoat. That's how the regime operated. On what basis do you claim that there were no records? On the same basis that you claim the UN inspectors were doing a great job, even during the 5 years that they had been kicked out of the country and were not doing any inspecting at all? And you accuse me of fantasy?