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To: epicure who wrote (224644)	3/19/2007 1:58:01 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

People laid out what would happen, and more importantly WHY it would happen. Show me those people, and more importantly, show me what they said BEFORE March 2003. I keep hearing from your crowd ridiculous things that everybody supposedly KNEW - like that WMDs were a lie. Hasn't bigmouth Joe Wilson been hawking that line? Yet in Jan 2003 bigmouth Joe wrote an oped saying we mustn't invade Iran because Saddam would use poison gas on our troops. There is now no incentive for Hussein to comply with the inspectors or to refrain from using weapons of mass destruction to defend himself if the United States comes after him. And he will use them; we should be under no illusion about that. Hussein and Aziz both told me directly that Iraq reserved the right to use every weapon in its arsenal if invaded, just as it had against Iran and later the Kurds. The fact that thousands of men, women and children had died in these attacks fazed them not one bit. In fact, Aziz could barely be bothered to stop puffing on his Cuban cigar as he made these comments, of so little importance was the use of chemicals to kill people. It is probably too late to change Hussein's assessment, and that will make any ensuing battle for Iraq that much more dangerous for our troops and for the Iraqis who find themselves in the battlefield. http://web.archive.org/web/20040409230230/www.johnkerry.com/honesty/la_times.html