--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, you are saying that in 2002, a major intelligence agency
> > concluded that Iraq had no WMD stockpiles of any kind?
>
>
> No.  You've inverted the statement. The NIE, as well as Tenet in
> later public statements about that NIE, said that they believed
> that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological agents, but
> they were not weaponized.

And this was before the war?   And they concluded that *none* of the
stockpiles were weaponized.

> There was no delivery system that they were aware of, just an
> intention or programs to create them. Makes it kind of hard to
> argue for an imminent threat, doesn't it?

It depends how long it would take to weaponize them, among other
factors.

JDG



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