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To: Rambi who wrote (170704)	6/22/2006 11:00:26 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793882

I read the report and it mentions "degraded" but refers to no dates. They just seem to believe it was pre-1991. I don't get the excitement. Well, I get some of it, but this seems a sort of toothless thing to me. 20 year old cannisters of degraded chemicals. It really isn't spin when you see people shrug about this, which many will do. It's that they truly don't find the information strong enough to change their initial beliefs, or particularly surprising. Since a lot of the objections to the war weren't based on the assumptions of hidden old chemicals, it just won't persuade, any more than most here will find the terms degraded or pre1991 pertinent enough to affect their beliefs.

To: Rambi who wrote (170704)	6/22/2006 11:58:03 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793882

So it matters not that Saddam's government certified that all such weapons had been destroyed or accounted for?

To: Rambi who wrote (170704)	6/22/2006 12:18:25 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793882

500 found.. seems rather large.. plus our local representative(Weldon, Curt; Pennsylvania) is pressing for two more areas in iraq to be checked for weapons since it was never checked according to some papers he recently had presented to him. I wonder how many more wmd are still in Iraq buried someplace, i expect there is more. Why not discuss the Russians suspected of moving weapons to Syria. it seems these assumptions for some reason the adm also neglects to discuss. the key is all weapons were not destroyed and i assume many were moved to syria or buried.