Re: Iraq war inquiry
Originally Posted by
galty
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True it would be easy to hide bulky things but not a paper trail.
Oh come on Galty, a 'paper trail'
I've worked in several middle east countries and
there is no Arabic word for 'paper trail' let alone actually having one.
And another thing that annoys me intensely is that
no one ever defines WMD's - to one person it's one thing and to another it's something completely different.
Let me explain, it's not that difficult to set up a lab and get a few scientists to work on creating a substance which when dropped in the water supply would kill thousands of people. It's a hell of a lot more difficult to find a means of delivering such substances (even 'tho they might be only the size of an Oxo cube).
Saddams laboritory was
only the size of a typical three bedroom semi in England. When he saw the war comming he phoned up his chief scientist (
Nothing is ever put in writing in these situations)
"
Hey, Abdul, a war is comming, we don't want to let anyone know what you've been working on so chuck it all in the back of a Land Rover, drive out to dessert, and dig a big hole and dump it"
And you know what, that's just what Abdul did, and further more you all know that right out in the dessert they did get some readings on the instruments,
nothing big and only in one place.
So the question
did Saddam have WMD's and the answer is both YES and NO
YES, He was developing them
NO, He didn't have sufficient quantity or a means of delivering them
So the
real question which so far as I can see should be:-
Do you believe that if we leave Saddam alone and just ignore him that he will close down his little laboritory and stop thinking about developing all these nasty horrible things that can kill thousands of people -
That is the real question but of course no one is going to ask that question because the answer will depend on what people want the answer to be grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
You only need to know what he did to the Kurds ten years earlier to see the answer to that one.