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To: Cogito who wrote (53108)	11/7/2006 10:37:55 AM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"...The reason the Bush Administration isn't beating this drum is probably related to the fact that there really isn't plenty of evidence that there were WMDs..." That may be the case, Allen. Or, it may be that some clear evidence DOES exist, but it's classified for some deeper reason. Remember Gulf War I, when Saddam was sending (or trying to send) his most advanced aircraft to Iran, supposedly his most bitter enemy, rather than let them be destroyed by American air power? And the intel pictures Sec of State Powell used to convince the UN Security Council that Iraq had chemical weapons plants? Those pics showed that many trucks were doing something around suspected chem/bio WMD sites, and the implication was that the material, whatever it was, was being shipped to Syria. Subsequent to that, several members of Saddam's family defected and said that much chem weapon material was sent to Syria. Then silence, and then, after we occupied Iraq, there was much sabre rattling directed against Syria which quickly subsided. This is the stuff from which conspiracy theories arise. I don't claim to know anything about this, but I do think there is sufficient reason to think something is being withheld. The fact that virtually ALL major world intel agencies were in agreement about Saddam's WMD capability, prior to the invasion, should at least leave the door open before any final conclusions are drawn.