At 02:58 PM 2/15/06 GMT, redleica wrote: >Rumsfeld said we know they have WMD, chemicals which were used on a civilian population. >So it seems people were carried along with this red herring of were is the evidence. Well, for starters, we do know that Saddam at one time used poison gas on both Iranian soldiers and on his own people. We know that he had the capacity to produce more and we now know that the equipment to do this was evacuated to Syria where it is still located. We discovered small stocks of chemical and biological weapons though nothing on the order of what we expected to find. We also discovered munitions suitable for devlivering such weapons. And now there are the tapes which surfaced recently which cover a discussion between Sadaam and his top aides over the use of such weapons and discussing how the weapons inspectors were being misled and deceived. I am no fan of the Iraq War but I do acknowledge that Sadaam was a troubling and destabilizing force in the region with a technical ability to obtain and employ chemical and biological weapons and to possibly develop nuclear weapons. Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list