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To: Neocon who wrote (156032)	1/12/2005 11:50:38 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

At this point...based upon his posts, I would have to relegate GST to the ranks of the "flat earth" or "holocaust denier" types..... Those types of folks are impervious to historical fact, logic, etc.....

To: Neocon who wrote (156032)	1/12/2005 12:24:32 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 281500

<scientists were leading him on about progress, because there was evidence of ongoing programs from the regime itself, not just exiles> This is completely at odds with the facts. We continue to hold Iraqi scientists prisoner because we assume they are lying as they continue to claim there were no ongoing wmd programs. The threat that the US put out for public consumption was NOT backed by other countries -- far from it. As Cheney, Rice and Bush went on about nuclear weapons programs in Iraq there was no support for believing such nonsense in other countries. The THREAT was never established by the US and that was why the UN would not back an invasion. They were right, there was no threat to justify an invasion. If Saddam had no wmds and could prove it along with no active programs, then sanctions would indeed be lifted. The US cannot justify an invasion by saying they were afraid that the world was on the verge of releasing Saddam from sanctions because there were no wmds and no wmd programs.