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To: Brumar89 who wrote (174290)	11/5/2005 4:13:06 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Just one of many such examples... "...Sen. D'AMATO: The most recent outrageous kind of activity was when they said, "Well, you know, he sent a representative to the biological confab on the use -- against biological weapons -- that he's actually sent somebody to a convention." Here's the fellow who's using gas, poison gas and chemicals, to kill his own people, and they said, "Oh, well, you know, he's really -- there's hope. We see hope." Oh, my gosh, if that is not the most incredible, impractical, illogical kind of thing! NARRATOR: When the Reagan presidency became the Bush presidency, the new team's policy was a continuation of the old. It would be a policy that required the repeated triumph of hope over experience, because the Iraqi arms build-up was continuing. This spring, it was blocked at the last moment in an attempt to import a supergun whose shells could hit targets across the Middle East. At the same time, a British-American sting operation caught Iraqis trying to steal detonators for a nuclear bomb. In Washington, many thought this was all very predictable. Some in Congress tried to force the Bush administration to reverse its course by imposing sanctions on Iraq. Rep. HOWARD BERMAN, (D) California: They use chemical weapons, and we're talking about assurances that they aren't doing the things which they're so clearly doing....." pbs.org