Mark Browne wrote:

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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Gould 0738 wrote:

I did not know Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9-11, but since you
believe he was, shouldn't we go after his top 50 henchmen?

You introduced the "top 50 Iraqis" into the discussion about responding
to
9-11.
Even though our government implied that SH conspired with his sworn,
mortal
enemy, OBL, to pull of 9-11, the case seems weak at best.

I thought we were discussing 9-11, but to answer your question anyway,
if I
was a betting man, I would guess they are over in Syria or buried out
in the
middle of the desert. Do you honestly believe that SH was not
stockpiling
weapons of MD?

If he had any, they were manufactured outside of Iraq and brought in.

Not necessarily.


The last
time we were able to detect any trace of WMD manufacture in Iraq was
1998.

By what means?


Inspectors last year not only did not find any weapons, they were unable
to
detect even the slightest chemical or biological trace of any recent
manufacturing activity. The ordinance has a 3- 5year shelf life.

Key phrase: "were unable to find". That does not mean that they were not
there, only that the inspectors failed to find them. You seem to imply
that the Iraqi's were "up front" and honest when it came time to show
the inspectors around. Like I said before, it's a BIG desert.

Or there arn't any.
See:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/skeptic-faq/
Look at point 0.6: mundane, unusual and bull**** claims.


I like this one, and in many cases it applies. Deciding whether a
seemingly outlandish claim is credible or not, has much to do with the
circumstances surrounding the claim. For instance, if I were to say that
I had a garage full of chemical weapons, it would probably fall under
the "BS" claim. But knowing what we know about Saddam Hussein, his
personality, his paranoia, his aspirations, and his ruthlessness, it's
much more believable that HE has them stashed somewhere.

It's certainly possible that there aren't any WMD. It's also equally
possible that there are hidden caches. The real point is that we should
not automatically jump to either conclusion, based solely on flawed
analysis and conjecture.

Dave