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To: average joe who wrote (132989)	5/14/2004 11:23:25 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

? What on Earth is your point? The point I am on is about Blix, and what Blix was saying,and what course Blix wanted to pursue in pursuit of satisfactory evidence for the explanations offered by Iraq. You have gone off on some other tangent dealing with "what if..." I think SNL used to do some pretty funny skits like that. Maybe you should call them.

To: average joe who wrote (132989)	5/14/2004 11:28:59 AM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You're evading the point, it is quite obvious that Iraq could have acquired components for WMD and they would have then most certainly entertained the idea of assembling them in some fashion to use them on people they did not like. The fact that they did not have WMD is contrary to the point that if they did have they would have in some circumstances used them. First of all, why is it "quite obvious" that Iraq could have acquired components of WMD's. They were under constant inspection. Also, it's quite one thing to "intend to acquire components" and another to have WMD's and pose an imminent threat (as our administration lied to all of us about). A potential for a weapon's program defines about half of the countries in the world (the other half already have them). We going to preemptively attack all of them? (realistically, probably only those sitting on oil reserves). And "if they did have them they would have in some circumstances used them". Why would anyone acquire anything unless there were "some circumstances in which they would use them"? Isn't this kind of a ridiculous statement? And as far as I know, we're the only country with WMD's who has used them.