In a message dated 02/10/2005 1:49:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, howard at brazee.net writes: But they weren't. Everyone agrees on this point now...there were > no WMDs in Iraq. Even the latest US inspectors. Even the current > administration. > The fact that a portion of the American public still believes there > were WMDs is a greater condemnation of the American public than > the administration. I wouldn't be surprised if they were working on WMD. I would be surprised if they were doing so internally. With all the inspections and such, there really wasn't much of an upside for Saddam to that. Instead, send some scientists and some oil deals to a different country and share development where it is safe. If I were a developing country, I would get rid of my WMD the same time as the developed countries got rid of theirs. But if I were subject to inspections looking for mine, I would develop mine elsewhere. Obviously attacking Iraq did not get rid of any caches. Question is - is that because they don't exist, or is it because we looked in the wrong country? Not a bad point. I have to be honest with you, I doubt they ever had the mass quantities of WMD that we were led to believe they had. It doesn't mean I'm right, I just don't see any evidence. John D. Barbato, OD