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To: bentway who wrote (169015)	8/15/2005 9:02:35 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

FWIW I really do believe that they thought they would find stores of chem weapons and some sort of bio program. Nukes were always questionable and that is where there was some exaggeration i am certain. What i saw back then was sanctions not working and the euros salivating to do business with saddam and an ultimate reemergence of the pan arab Saddam threat both regionally and internationally. I worried that with terrorists out there saddam could hand off wmds secretly and with deniablity as the west was assaulted. In saddams mind, i think he viewed himself as the ultimate victor in leading the arab world and becoming a force in the world as powerful as most developed nations with a wmd arsenal to back him up. So when bush called him a gathering threat, i bought in. In retrospect, Saddams regime probably could never have pulled off what i was fearful of. I still think that if our troop levels were adequate the easy win in the war might have translated itself into a success story. Rummy should have fired a long time ago. Mike