Post #24465 by Basement Kahuna on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 10:33 AM

On 2003-02-26 09:27, Rain wrote:

When we get gassed, it won't be because we ignored someone that the CIA has REPEATEDLY said is not a real threat.

....Boy, where the hell have you been? At the Phish concert? Or are you just Helen Keller blind and deaf? I don't know where you're getting your CIA "Facts-?-" but here's part of the current U.S. intelligence (C.I.A., N.S.A., U.N. Intelligence) dossier on the Hussein regime. You "peace whether it gets me dead or not" people should really check those facts. Now go hug some trees and save some whales.....peace, duuuuude. The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough doses to kill several million people.
The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure.
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands.
U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions.

From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors.
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.

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