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To: Sam who wrote (1899)	6/25/2007 1:31:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 4152

Nadine, we also NOW know that Saddam was nuts, out of touch of reality. We also know that he and his sons retained command and control of the Iraqi state and its terror apparatus. "Nuts" means even less reason to expect Saddam to mind his own business in a rational manner. Absolute dictators who are nuts are also wildly paranoid (which is not nuts in their position) and desperate to do something that will occupy potential coup-makers with an external enemy. We also NOW know that his WMD "program" was nonexistent, and that no one knew what the heck they were doing. No, we know that the stockpiles had become non-existent, to the dismay of some of his generals who had been told otherwise. Remember, chemical warheads are not very hard to make, and Iraq had a proven track record of making and using them. They used them against Iran. They used them against the Kurds. What make you think they wouldn't have made more and used them in their next war, once sanctions were gone? Are you seriously saying that the Germans and the French would not have sold Saddam more chemicals? And we NOW know that even if Khan or North Korea was willing to sell nuclear know-how, they couldn't get it going in Libya or anywhere else (other, of course, than Pakistan). If by "get it going" you mean a finished bomb, no. But they were quite far along in Libya, as was Iraq in 1991 - a program completely missed by the CIA. Where there's a will, there's a way. Once sanctions were gone, Saddam would have been free to go shopping, and only efforts to interdict the shipping would stand between him and the bomb. What makes you so confident that Saddam could have been kept from buying a bomb? He would have had literally billions in oil money, once the sanctions were gone.