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To: GST who wrote (140784)	7/17/2004 9:33:57 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<Sounds like you have a weapons program going on there >> Nope, I have a farm. 350 acres of corn and soybeans. I'd bet I know a little more about farm chemicals than you do city boy. <<As for FL, he is free to allow people to misrepresent fertilizer as Iraqi WMDs, as some here seem intent on doing. >> You better ask him about that. Hard to say chemical bombs are fertilizer.

To: GST who wrote (140784)	7/17/2004 9:55:22 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 281500

<I know about ammonium nitrate. I've bought 114000 pounds of it in the last 20 years.> Sounds like you have a weapons program going on there -- Nah, just weapons related program activities. Hardly worth going to war over.

To: GST who wrote (140784)	7/18/2004 12:05:15 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<As for FL, he is free to allow people to misrepresent fertilizer as Iraqi WMDs, as some here seem intent on doing. But I would only feel foolish if I was one of those trying to pretend that a non-existent fertilizer bomb in Jordan was an Iraqi WMD. >> The UN has discussed the commonest known WMD weapons both biological and chemical. The source could be a sick chicken (bird flu) a dead horse ( anthrax) or a brake fluid plant (ricin) So it is not organic or chemical structure but the potential for extreme casualties from small quantities that would define a WMD Fertilizer alone alone would not be one, nor would known explosives, but nuclear would. Is a match , a magnifying glass, or lantern a WMD? One can start a forest fire or burn down a town. Fertilizer bombs or explosives ? No, because that is not the intended use. But ricin, anthrax, or botulism have no useful employment other than for experiments or WMD's Pesticides, designed to kill insects, would be in a class by themselves, being easily converted to deadly compounds like sarin. WMD precursors, and Saddam had tons of those stored in his ammo dumps. There is no question that new potential WMD's will be identified Sig