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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (148873)	10/24/2004 4:49:12 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<< that same nuclear argument which has since been refuted.>> The IAEA was mentioned in an article last week about about nuclear materials and bomb making equipment that was in Iraq and is now missing. If Iraq didn't have it, how come it's missing?

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (148873)	10/24/2004 5:34:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The administration never claimed Saddam had nuclear weapons in 2002. They said he could get them quickly, a claim backed up since then by Saddam's nuclear scientist, see Hitchen's review of The Bomb in My Garden slate.msn.com. Saddam also had a track record in this regard, note the nuclear program which had only come to light in 1995 when Hussein Kamel defected. I would also add, that with the nuclear program as with the others, what we know now, we know only because we invaded. We were not at all sure what the state of affairs was before we invaded. Just as we did not know of Libya's quite advanced program, until they flipped. We definitely did NOT know about AQ Khan's Sams Club for Nukes, which was exposed only because of our actions with & against Pakistan in the GWOT. Had we not invaded, sanctions would have been lifted within a year or two. Can you deny it? now that the Oil-for-Food bribes have been revealed? Once the sanctions were gone, Saddam would have been free to tell his own scientists to dig up their blueprints, and to go shopping. How long do you think it would have taken for willing buyer and willing seller (Pakistani or North Korean) to have gotten around the lame efforts of the IAEA to stop a purchase? Your demand for perfect intelligence is essentially a demand for a foreign policy program that runs on 20/20 hindsight.