Re: Bioweapons smoking gun

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 12:29:19 MDT

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    > John,
    >There is a report on Drudge this morning saying the Army WMD detection
    > team is leaving Iraq without having found any evidence of WMDs. Take a
    >look and tell me if I have it wrong.

    The article is at
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40212-2003May10.html
    and yes, it looks to me like they're almost ready to through in the towel
    and admit that the intelligence reports about a massive Iraqi WMD program
    were largely fiction. Oops. The scary thing is that next time when they
    really do have accurate reports about somebody developing WMD
    nobody will believe them. Oh well, at least we got rid of a brutal dictator
    and that's a good thing, unless it's replaced by a theocracy or some other
    horror.

    Not to end on a totally dark note, the war might give a long term boost to
    the world's economy, see:

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030519-450939,00.html

    Interesting quote:
    "Iraq is the only country capable of flooding the world with cheap oil on
    the scale of Saudi Arabia. [...] The average cost of bringing a barrel of
    oil out of the ground in the USA is about $10. In Saudi Arabia, it's about
    $2.50. And in Iraq, it's less than $1."

        John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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