"But the world isn't like that"

[jbor]

on 16/10/02 3:31 PM, barbara100 at jps.net at barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

> Honestly, Otto, have you heard any compelling evidence that Saddam has
> WDMs?  Let alone nuclear capabilities?  Fuck, he doesn't even have
> penicillin the last 12 years, how could he have uranium?

1991-1996 Iraqi military developed and used biological weapons in their
conflicts with Iran and with the Kurds. Zilinskas RA. 1997. Iraq's
biological weapons: The past as future? J Am Med Assoc 278:418-424.

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/nats104/00lect24histbiowar.html

> The last UN inspector in Iraq  (1998) said of 450 inspections they came up
> clean in [virtually] all of them and were in complete compliance.
> Saddam's got nothin', and if he does, as far as it's ever gonna go is
> Israel.

And that's OK because ... ?

> GW's got us all worked up over a two-bit scudster.
> This war is bullshit!  Even my mother took down her flag tonight, and she's
> a real patriot. She said her famous line again, "I'm a woman, I'm a
> Democrat, and I'm a Catholic!" but she added tonight, "but I just can't
> support this war!" I kid you not, she wrestled that old faded red white and
> blue from its pole as I buckled up and drove off.
>