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...team did make a few disturbing discoveries, which Bush seized on as sufficient proof that Saddam was "a danger to the world" and that the war was justified. Kay's team discovered a vial hidden in a scientist's home containing a biological agent, as well as evidence that in 2001 Saddam paid $10 million in an effort to buy prohibited missile technology from North Korea. (The equipment was never delivered.) Kay also said an Iraqi scientist had been shot and another Iraqi killed after cooperating with inspectors, although that claim was news to a former official in Iraq...
...lengths to stay in power. Saddam's minions have gone to some lengths--car bombs, false surrenders, using civilians as shields--but these have become the standard ceremonies of terrorism, the coin of the realm in that part of the world. And if no major stashes are found--a vial here, a warhead there simply won't do--America's credibility will be severely damaged...
...proposed, and rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption involving a hammer, a vial of poison and a quantum triggering device. If an electron is in one position, the hammer will remain safely cocked. But if the electron moves into the opposite location, the hammer will drop, smashing the vial and killing...
...interests. If he acquires a nuclear weapon on top of his hoarded biological and chemical ones, he will, according to Bush, wreak catastrophic harm on his enemies, which means the U.S. The ultimate method, said Bush, would be for Saddam to hand off to a terrorist network "one vial, one canister, one crate" of his deadly weapons "secretly and without fingerprints" to "bring a day of horror like none we have ever known...
...very thing that causes them anxiety, ratcheting up the exposure over a number of sessions until the brain habituates to the fear. A patient suffering from a blood phobia, for example, might first be shown a picture of a scalpel or syringe, then a real syringe, then a vial of blood and so on up the anxiety ladder until there are no more rungs to climb. There is a risk that if treatment is cut short (before the patient has become inured to the anxiety triggers), the anxious feelings could be exacerbated. But done right, behavioral therapy can bring relief...