"But the world isn't like that"

[barbara100 at jps.net]

No need for Americans to get this worked up, is all.  Saddam's not a threat
to America, but the President's been telling us he is.  He's lying to us.
It's not okay that Israel gets scudded or anything else, but you know full
well once we start bombing Baghdad, he'll start bombing Tel Aviv if he has
anything at all. It happened last time, and everybody predicts it'll happen
again. Poor Israel. This war will be a recipe for disaster for them.

You don't call that 1996 data compelling, do you?  The inspectors saw an end
to it two years later.

Jbor wrote:
> 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 ... ?
>