Richard writes:

> I think the point was, they never existed, otherwise they would have found
> them or if they were moved then the US would have known about it.

I'm going to keep repeating what I wrote on February 25th, at the height of
the administration's ramp-up campaign of nonsense, long before the war started,
no matter how poor a form it is to say "I told you so":

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Life is not nearly as simple as the current administration is making it seem.
Perhaps more relevant, nothing Iraq has done lately has posed any threat to
either the United States or any of Iraq's neighbors. Saddam is 65 years old
now, he has no active WMD programs, and he governs an army that is only 30%
to 50% the size it was during the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. The situation in
Iraq will come to an end in another 10 years of its own accord. Containment
as a policy worked for the Soviet Union, for Libya, and it would work for
Iraq. The most pro-western Islamic country in the region is now Iran, and it
became so on its own, primarily because we left it alone.

 --http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0302D&L=hp3000-l&D=0&P=10673

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This was a wholly unneccessary war of pre-emption, and because there was
nothing to pre-empt, it was at its core an immoral and illegal war. This
administration convinced a number of highly gullible souls on this list and throughout
the country at large that Iraq had an intercontinental missile under
development, had stadia full of biological weapons ready to be deployed within an hour,
was actively training terrorists, and was intimately involved with the 9/11
attacks.

Absolutely none of that was true -- and it was transparently so. If you
believed it, you should immediately sign up to take a few classes from your nearest
university on critical thinking. Without these faculties, you're going to
subject to lies and distortions the remainder of your life.

However something that is true, something that you're going to read in the
next few days, is that the administration, which spent $600 million on the
search for weapons of mass destruction, has recently very quietly removed all of
its weapons hunting teams from Iraq, primarily at the insistence of the
military, who grew very tired of the wild goose chase. For all of the banging of the
war drums going in, there's not even a small peep coming out.

Wirt Atmar

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