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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2003-07-23 06:01 pm

[identity profile] kaet.livejournal.com 2003-07-23 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
Depending on what you mean by WMD. I don't thgink there were any non-thermobaric weapons. I think it's likely, though, that materials for them were around, probably mothballed, that the programme was incoherent and disturbed, hysterical and paranoid, and largely unable to produce anything effective or reliable in a weapons sense, but perfectly able to cause large-scale disasters or fear (as-per something Sverdlovsk/Yekaterinberg). Most people in Halabja were killed by soldiers weilding Kalashnikovs; the chemicals used were dangerous and horrific and killed many people in a nasty way, but even when Iraq could persue its chemical weapons programme unimpeded, they weren't weapons of mass production so much as weapons of institutional sadism. That's my take, anyway.
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2003-07-23 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
That's at least consistent with the inspectors complaining about lack of cooperation and yet no chemical weapons being used in the war.
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[personal profile] gerald_duck 2003-07-23 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
All of Iraq's WMDs are being found every day, everywhere.

It's very easy to find a nothing, wherever you look.

[identity profile] bellinghwoman.livejournal.com 2003-07-23 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
John Donne fan, are we? :-)
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2003-07-25 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
'below' seems popular...