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“If they do have weapons of mass destruction, they cannot use them without facing devastating repercussions,” he said. “Iraq is containable for the indefinite future, even if they were to require a handful of nuclear weapons.”
“I think we’re not having a reasoned debate on Iraq,” said Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama, who signed the online letter. “There seems to be the mechanisms in place to just go to war, we?...
But even in the absence of such controls, diplomacy has proven effective so far in keeping those volatile nations from using their own weapons of mass destruction. Our experience with Saddam has shown that although may be evil, he is neither stupid nor irrational. He does not want to see...
Enter the rhetoric of apocalypse. After 11 years of relative obscurity, Saddam is suddenly everywhere. Administration officials remind us over and over that Saddam is dangerous, evil and irrational, and that in dealings with his “outlaw regime,” as Bush calls it, we can predict...
The dossier notes that all this work violates UN resolutions as well as other treaties, and serves Saddam's proven passion, going back more than 20 years, to acquire a big collection of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).