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To: GST who wrote (123479)	1/21/2004 10:34:08 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

<permission to defend the country>> Well, I guess if you live in N Dakota, under the protection of 1050 Minutmen MIRV s instead of in the Sears Tower, then the apparent future threat of a fully armed and nuclear Iraq is pretty remote and you wouldn't notice. Who cares if terrorists buy some of Saddams non-existant chemicals and release some in the subways. No need to wipe out the WMD developers, we can wear gas masks and get shots. Sig

To: GST who wrote (123479)	1/22/2004 6:38:12 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The funniest sentence: "Already the Kay Report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations." Can't you see the speech-writers agonizing over exactly how to say that? Can't claim to have found WMD. Can't even claim to have found any programs. But "activities" that are "related" to "programs", that's the latest in the endless series of fall-back positions. Never admit you lied, just tiptoe away from previous claims, by adding another weasel-word with each iteration. Nobody will notice. By election-time, they'll be claiming to have found "WMDish-related program activity-like precursor dreams, and dozens of naughty thoughts." And it only cost 166B$ to find them.