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To: epicure who wrote (139509)	7/8/2004 10:23:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Yes we did have luck scaring him out of his weapons programs. The facts are pretty clear on that one. Not by 95, when Hussein Kamel defected and spilled the beans on the BW programs. Not by 98, when he tossed out the inspectors. Looks like he dumped his stocks in the 14 months we gave him to prepare for the war. So okay, we scared him AFTER we put an invading army on his border.

To: epicure who wrote (139509)	7/8/2004 10:25:18 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It does not follow that because no WMD were found that we "scared" him out of them. Who knows what kind of crazy rationale Saddam had for not maintaining WMD, though he probably had the capacity for "just in time" production for some of them. The Pollack articles we discussed yesterday and today talk about the possible reasons for Saddam not having them, but none of the reasons he cites have to do with us "scaring" him out of them.

To: epicure who wrote (139509)	7/9/2004 7:10:18 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Yes we did have luck scaring him out of his weapons programs. The facts are pretty clear on that one. You are wrong. Even David Kay said that Saddam continued to pursue his WMD programs, but in a surreptitious manner.. You are certainly wrong about his agenda to circumvent the UN sanctions programs prohibiting the sale of ANY form of military equipment to Saddam.. There is plenty of open source data available to substantiate his attempts to import prohibited military items. What you'll need to watch for is the final report from the Iraq Survey Group, probably within a couple of months.. I guarantee you that it will be enlightening.. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). And hopefully it will all be declassified. It will certainly disprove any assertion you've made that somehow Saddam was "scared out of his weapons programs".. That's all I'll say for now... (Except that it's REALLY HOT...;0) Hawk