Re: GAO Report: GA Security Threat

"C J Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Fred the Red Shirt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> | > "Thomas Borchert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> | > | I can't see much of a difference for the world with Saddam missing (he
> | > | isn't, really, by the way). I am now absolutely certain - as most news
> | > | watchers - that Saddam didn't pose nearly the threat that some were
>  led
> | > | to believe. There are no WMD, period.
> | > |
> | >
> | > Saddam's own military commanders all believed that Saddam had WMD. They
>  have
> | > told investigators that they still believe it.
> |
> | I'm only aware of one such person and he made claims about nuclear
> | weapons which made it clear that he actually knew nothing about them.
> 
> Well, I heard it on NPR.

Do you recall the context?  E.g. did the NPR speaking head say that or
did the NPR speaking head quote someone else as saying that, or
was someone else being interviewed who said that or did they play 
statements from 'all' of Sadam Hussein's own military commanders?
Were ANY of the commanders mentioned by name?

I have speculated that the Iraqi military was so weakened by the 
1991 war and ensuing sanctions that Saddam Hussein created the 
impression that he was hiding WMDs as a bluff to forstall
military action against his regime from outside or within.  But
I don't claim that to be anything but my own speculation.  

Let's not forget that he only controlled about 2/3 of his own
country and his control over half of that was marginal.

The man to whom I referred was a defector who was interviewed 
in a PBS Frontline broadcast.  I'm sorry to say that I do not
remember his name.

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FF