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To: RetiredNow who wrote (290610)	6/10/2006 4:06:41 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572604

Again, it only takes a few 55 gallon drums of ricin or mustard gas to kill hundreds of thousands of people. spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk It's pretty awful stuff, but not a really effective killer. The Germans shot TONS of it at the Brits in WWI, but only managed to kill about 4000 of them with it in four years of trying. Of course, the Germans weren't the only ones using gas: "In 1918 a German corporal by the name of Adolf Hitler was temporarily blinded by a British gas attack in Flanders. Having suffered the agonies of gas first hand, his fear of the weapon would prevent him from deploying it as a tactical weapon on the battlefields of the Second World War." The idea that Saddam would threaten us here in the USA with mustard gas is only good for a laugh, or perhaps a smirk. The whole "WMD" argument is kind of bogus - the only REAL WMD are nuclear weapons, and we and Russia have the most, by a tremendous margin. Israel is the fourth largest owner of WMD's worldwide, with China in the third spot. The Brits, the French, India and Pakistan trail Israel.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (290610)	6/10/2006 5:09:33 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1572604

re: You know I have no love for the neocons, but I can't help but feel that even though Saddam went down, he is still having the last laugh, because he probably hid his WMD and we'll never find it. So he went down, but he made the US look silly. The US made itself look--- not silly--- something else. re: If there was a way to really and truly know the truth, like a genie came out of a bottle and said I will answer one question for you and we asked him if Iraq hid their WMD before we got there, I would bet all of my possessions that he did hide it either somewhere in Iraq or in Syria. I know we'll never know for sure, but I still believe that is a higher probability than the belief that he had none in all of Iraq. Even if he had some chemical weapons, which even the Bush admin now admits he did not, then he didn't have a delivery system. Nor the motive... sure he was full of anti-US bluster, but in the end what could he do and what would be the repercussions? Face it, you were snookered by the Bush admin. There was no threat. Like I said, revisit the Powell UN BS and you will get a "fresh" perspective.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (290610)	6/17/2006 2:28:33 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572604

So he went down, but he made the US look silly. No, American arrogance made the US look silly. We got attacked and we were going to show the world. Bush used that arrogance to his advantage. Very few people objected strongly when he suggested invading Iraq. Any fool with a modicum of intelligence knew Bush was snookering the American public. The fact he is still in office speaks to the docileness of the American public. The American public should be outraged and out in the streets everyday until Bush and his cohorts are forced from office. Instead, we look more and more like idiots to the world.