I've been thinking about this kind of thing for some time now: what if we do indeed find WMDs in October? And it came to me that we weren't be in much danger from WMDs that weren't used; not much threat there.

So assume that Casual O's story is true (though I'm puzzled about how Saddam shipped anything out after the war). How much were we threatened by a nation that was getting rid of its weapons?

Will Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey use the stuff to make atomic bombs and raise a mushroom cloud over us?

And are dual-use gadgets always weapons?

I still see less excuse for attacking Iraq than we had for attacking the USSR in Reagan's administration.

Even assuming that the story's true.

clint