"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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BOTH parties were totally convinced about Saddams links to WMD, and had
been
for years.

The chemical and biological weapons had known, predictable shelf lives.
When
both parties were concerned about WMD in the late 80's, most of the
weapons we
sold Iraq and those we knew they had developed in the early 1980's were
still
potentially active.

Scott Ritter has made an excellent case that unless SH made new weapons
that we
didn't know about, by the time GWB began thumping the WMD drum we knew
darn
well the old weapons were no longer
effective.

I fear that because Ritter's name was in the news during the same year the
U.N. was involved in inspections, the Borg will never consider him credible,
especially since they are more knowledgable on these issues than Ritter.
This is why the government asked people like JohnH, NOYB and Bill to handle
the inspections. Unfortunately, they had other committments.

:-)