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To: Sam who wrote (125369)	3/1/2004 12:08:39 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

The excerpts you quote are referring to the question of what the aluminum tubes that Iraq imported were for, and whether Al Qaeda obtained nerve agent from Iran. The first has some bearing on the state of Iraq's nuclear program, but none on the question of what had happened to all the unaccounted for bio- and chem-weapons, and what current WMD programs were ongoing. The second has nothing to do Iraq's WMDs at all. So this excepts simply do not address the question of whether Saddam had chem and bio weapons. Under the sanctions, it was up to Saddam to cooperate and come clean, which he refused to do. Since the sanctions were costing him hundreds of billions of dollars, either he was hiding something or he was crazy. Turned out he was crazy, or rather, he was hiding something but the whole country was crazy.