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Modulous
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Message 72 of 145 (410637)
07-16-2007 12:58 PM
Reply to: Message 71 by Tal
07-16-2007 12:49 PM


Why would they be recruiting former WMD experts?
So they can build weapons of mass destruction? That would be the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy I suppose: By going in there to save the world from nonexistent WMDs we find ourselves under the threat of real WMDs being used against the world. Hurrah!
Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.

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Modulous
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Message 78 of 145 (412973)
07-27-2007 2:22 AM
Reply to: Message 77 by Tal
07-26-2007 6:18 PM


That's the point. That's why they were here in the first place. I highly doubt they were here flipping burgers. Saying WMD Experts were/are in Iraq to do anything other build WMD is like watching a guy in a mask with a gun walk into a bank and then assume he's only there to cash a check.
Not really. We know that Iraq once had WMD, and the people that could make them, maintain them and decommission them. When Hussein stops building WMDs - the expertise doesn't evaporate; they still live in the country.
The insurgents are smart enough to realize this, and they are now looking for these people with a view to employing them (or otherwise persuading them to use their expertise).

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