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To: KLP who wrote (139474)	7/8/2004 5:10:35 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

If Iraq posed the kind of threat that we see in North Korea there would be zero opposition from anybody on an invasion and other measures -- but it did not pose that kind of threat. Should we be concerned with nuclear proliferation by rogue States with missiles, bombs, bomb materials and know how and a habit of selling to the highest bidder -- absolutely. But by that standard North Korea should be our central concern. If al Qaida has money and wants a bomb, they will go where they need to go. The former Soviet Union's unsecured nuclear capability is another enormous security threat to us -- greater now in some ways than in the cold war. We face REAL threats on the WMD front. We face REAL threats on terrorism. Unfortunately we have the bulk of our military focused on an irrelevant and anarchic mess of our own making -- Iraq.