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   From: okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com   
      
   Okay let us try this one more time.  Why would you "force" a country to   
   accept inspectors if you did not believe that if they had WMD's they were a   
   threat.  And if they were a threat if they had such a capability, what in   
   the world makes you think that they would not be a threat even if you found   
   no such weapons.  The only difference I can see is, they are not as big a   
   threat as you thought they were.   
      
   "John Wesley Asquith"  wrote in message   
   news:50v130tlqus0qkrugl6em73iurn0l8lo2i@4ax.com...   
   > Prime Minister Tony Blair's government "dramatized" some of its prewar   
   > evidence about the threat posed by Iraq, former chief U.N. weapons   
   > inspector Hans Blix said Sunday.   
   >   
   > On the British Broadcasting Corp.'s "Breakfast with Frost" program,   
   > Blix said it was unclear what was meant by the claim in a September   
   > 2002 intelligence dossier that Iraq could deploy some weapons of mass   
   > destruction on 45 minutes' notice.   
   >   
   > "The intention was to dramatize it just as the vendors of some   
   > merchandise are trying to increase and exaggerate the importance of   
   > what they have," he said. "From politicians, from our leaders in the   
   > Western world, I think we expect more than that. A bit more   
   > sincerity."   
   >   
   > Blix, whose team of U.N. inspectors did not make any significant   
   > weapons finds during months of searching Iraq before the war, said it   
   > was clear now that there were no weapons of mass destruction there   
   > before the U.S.-led invasion.   
   >   
   > Blix said Western intelligence agencies had been too willing to   
   > believe questionable information from Iraqi defectors.   
   >   
   > It is very obvious that Blair and Bush and Rumsfeld and Powell all   
   > wanted to attack Iraq under the premise of fighting terrorism when, in   
   > fact, there was no terrorist connection there at the time.  However,   
   > since the U.S.-les "pre-emptive" war has begun many terrorists have   
   > been drawn to Iraq to fight against the U.S.   
   >   
   > Bush's foreign policy has been a disaster that had made America less   
   > safe rather than more safe.   
   >   
      
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