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To: geode00 who wrote (191741)	7/17/2006 5:36:34 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What quantity of WMD's would need to be found to cause you to reverse your opinion about the war? If evidence were found tomorrow proving Saddam played a role in 911, would that cause you to reverse your opinion about the war? Other than the number of Americans killed what is the difference between 911 and the other planned and actual terror attacks Saddam's govt played a role in? Some info re. Saddam's WMD use: Regardless of how many WMD's Saddam possessed in 2003, we know Saddam had the ability to make bio/chem weapons at any time and he know he would use them against civilians because he did so in 1980's. We also know Saddam had the ambition to develop nuclear weapons and had actively worked to do so in the 1980's and 1990's. Saddam's history of using bio/chem weapons indicates he would use nuclear weapons as just another weapon in his arsenal. Some info re. Saddam's terrorism threat: Vladimir Putin "I can confirm that after the events of September 11, 2001 and up to the military operation in Iraq, Russian Special Services and Russian Intelligence several times received information that official organs of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the United States and beyond its borders at U.S. military and civilian locations." Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who ran an al Qaida affiliated terror camp* near Herat, Afghanistan, sent assassins to Amman Jordan to murder U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley. One of the captured assassins confessed on Jordanian television, saying Zarqawi had sent them orders and wired funds from Baghdad. U.S. intelligence hadn't heard of Zarqawi until they intercepted his congratulatory telephone call from Baghdad to the assassins in Amman. *Counting family members this camp housed several thousand people ( militant Sunni Arabs from Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia). Abdul Rahman Yasin, indicted for preparing the explosive used in the first attempt to bring down the WTC in 1993 (on the Friday before the weekend on which fell the second anniversary of Saddam's defeat in Iraq), escaped to Iraq, where he was given a house and monthly stipend by Saddam's government. On multiple occasions, Iraqi diplomats were expelled from the Philippines for aiding Abu Sayyaf terrorists and sponsoring terror attacks on Americans there. Leading one to think that it is likely Iraqi diplomats were doing similar things elsewhere. Re. Saddam's mperial invasions and annexations of neigboring oil reserves: Saddam seized power in Iraq in 1979 and the following year invaded Iran's oil province. In 1988, the Iran-Iraq war ended and the following year he invaded Kuwait and placed his troops on the border of Saudi Arabia. Whenever Saddam was unconstrained by an ongoing war or by American troops on his border, Saddam wasted little time starting the next war. As long as he was in power, there was always going to be a next war. Saddam's non-deterability: Saddam dared to try to assassinate former Pres. Bush for no reason other than spite at being denied Kuwait. When faced with an insurmountable coalition demanding he withdraw from Kuwait, he chose to fight a war he knew he couldn't win and might not survive. Saddam's actions show he was not deterable.