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Originally Posted by Homerun04
Your logic is flawed.........as is the logic of everyone else who thinks this way.........because the Iraqi's had all the ELEMENTS to create WMD -- and because they had already assembled these elements in the past to create WMD and therefiore prove they had the capacity to rapidly develop these weapons -- then, by definition, THEY HAVE WMD.
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Homerun, your logic is seriously flawed
Unless there are useable stockpiles, the ability to produce is only meaningful if it can be done urgently. Beyond that it's a sliding scale of risk. Additionally there has to be a desire to have said WMD used in a terrorist act.
As bad as He has been in the past, we know today that there was never much credible information that indicated Saddam was a short-term threat on either count.
The laundry list of countries that have real stockpiles of WMD today is quite large. The list of nations with nuclear weapons or those that are close is growing quickly. Many of these countries have deep roots to terrorisim, and continue to pose a
much larger threat than Saddam ever did.
The real tragedy of Iraq, is that this idiological detour has undermined the very institutions necessary to wage an effective war against the real enemy.
-spence