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Side topic: WoMD in Iraq --
I sure hope these are found. However, *not* finding them will not put me out completely. Several of the weapons on record could not be accounted for by Saddam. Now, I find it exceedingly unlikely he destroyed the WoMD's without documenting it, since he can call every major newspaper to shoot him cutting up a half-dozen missiles. So, if WoMD are not there and are not found it means one of 2 things:
(1) Saddam/ someone else sent the weapons elsewhere (scary thought), or
(2) Saddam lied about what WoMD he had to begin with (and I have no pity for a man who is so full of lies to fall victim to his own lies -- serves him right). I know there is a big push to find these, and I know it's important to Bush, but because of these reasons I listed, I think we're all missing the point, which is "whether the US reasonably believed the weapons were there."
Back OT --
Yes, I am sick of war. Iran is unfinished business like Iraq. US troubles with Iran lessened significantly after the US backed Saddam in the long Iran/Iraq War. Now that Iraq, Iran's nearest enemy, is gone, less pressure is on Iran and it has plenty of time to muck around in its neighbors affairs.
That said, let Iran alone for a bit -- within 10 years, we're likely to see a great lessening of the power of the clerics to dominate the country.
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