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To: epicure who wrote (1110)	3/30/2006 5:35:20 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 14758

He would have evolved into a threat and long term containment wouldnt have worked because of euros, ruskys and UN. But the faulty intel led to a rush to war that wasnt necessary. But the threat westera talks about of saddam passing wmds was something given his nature he would do.

To: epicure who wrote (1110)	3/30/2006 7:46:57 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

There was no "containment" of Saddam. It was an utter joke thanks to the OFF scandal, another in a long line of horrific failures by the UN. << "If you have been reading the reports of documents recently released you will notice...." >> I am watching the release of the tapes & documents closely. I am not noticing what you want to believe they claim to show. In fact, they just add to the mountain of evidence gathered by the Iraq Survey Group. The ISG established beyond any doubt that Saddam spent OFF funds on WMD Programs, materials & equipment - that Saddam effectively thwarted UN Inspectors for 12 years - that Saddam repeatedly lied about, hid & withheld materials (including bio labs), documents & dual use WMD equipment from Inspectors to the very end. Sadly, like most of your "opinions" about Bush & Iraq, they are essentially an article of faith, bolstered by a plethora of intentional misinformation from the MSM & DNC. It's amazing intellectual elites like you & supposed "objective" journalists remain completely impervious to all contrary facts & credible evidence even as they continue to mount with the release of these documents.

To: epicure who wrote (1110)	4/5/2006 12:43:16 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

INCREDIBLE ARTICLE NR Staff The Corner Jim Lacey’s cover story in the current issue of National Review is an eye-opening look into the issue of WMD in Iraq, and how Bush critics have ignored important facts while cranking out conventional wisdom. Here’s a snippet from the beginning of his essay: <<< But these claims ignore huge amounts of contrary evidence; and most of this evidence can be found in the final report of the Iraqi Survey Group (ISG) — the very same report that many critics hold up as proof positive that Iraq was not a WMD threat. The evidence found by the ISG (an investigative commission set up by the Bush administration after the invasion of Iraq) confirms that Saddam was preparing to rapidly reconstitute his WMD program the moment he broke out of sanctions, which — given the frayed state of the coalition against him — would inevitably have happened. Not only did Bush not “lie”; the critics themselves are guilty of selectively citing evidence and of ignoring facts inconvenient to their argument. The ISG report, as well as the other evidence that continues to come to light, demonstrates that Saddam couldn’t be trusted with the apparatus of a modern state, which he would have turned quickly back to producing WMD as soon as circumstances allowed. Consider just one datum: According to the report, Saddam had the capability to start anthrax production within one week of making the decision to do so, and thereafter to produce over ten tons of weaponized anthrax a year. If even 1 percent of that amount — 200 pounds — were released into the air over Washington, D.C., Congress’s Office of Technology Assessment estimates that up to 3 million people would die. >>> Look, this is a subscription pitch, but an unabashed one. You really should be getting National Review — it’s the only journal out there that brings you important articles like the one Jim Lacey has penned for our current issue. You should get NR right now, and you can, by subscribing to the convenient and very affordable “Digital” version. Do that here. You will not regret it! kable.com corner.nationalreview.com