~>  ~>  EC> "curveball" was the ONLY intelligence source
that indicated
that Iraq
~>  ~>  EC> had a chemical weapons program.  John pointed out that was
completely
  
~>  ~> You have another source?
 
~>  EC> One was in the part that you chopped out!  The Iraqi government
~>  EC> threatened to use them.  
 
~> Iraq threatened a lot of things.  That doesn't mean they had them.  

You are once again evidencing a complete inability to follow a thread.  You
said "curveball" was the only source.  Anyone who followed the news knew
better.  From CNN for example: "IRAQ has given its first warning to the
West that it does possess weapons of mass destruction and that President
Saddam Hussein would be prepared to use them if his regime was threatened.
The remarks were a complete contradiction of the official Iraqi position.
Baghdad has insisted repeatedly that it no longer has chemical, biological
or nuclear weapons nor medium-range missiles.  Speaking in an interview
with al-Quds al-Arabi, a London-based Arabic newspaper, an unnamed senior
Iraqi official said that Iraq had used chemical weapons during the war with
Iran and would use them again if necessary. "
 
~>  EC> The UN said they had a program.  So did the
 
~> Really?  Then, tell us why the UN didn't give a go-ahead.  

It didn't want to.  That has nothing to do with the point.  Another pre-war
CNN story: "As some in the Bush administration press the case for a
pre-emptive strike against Iraq, weapons experts say there is mounting
evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has amassed large stocks of
chemical and biological weapons he is hiding from a possible U.S. military
attack.

"Iraq continues to possess several tons of chemical weapons agents, enough
to kill thousands and thousands of civilians or soldiers," said Jon
Wolfsthal, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
U.N. weapons experts have said Iraq may have stockpiled more than 600
metric tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, VX and sarin. Some
25,000 rockets and 15,000 artillery shells with chemical agents are also
unaccounted for, the experts said. "
 
~>  EC> CIA.  
 
~> LOL!  They lied!  

I am sure that you feel compelled to believe that on blind faith, but again
it has nothing to do with the point.
 
~>  EC> So did various other countries.  So did the people who FOUND
 
~> Name some, other than Great Britain.  

Great Britain, Italy, France, probably others including some in the region,
but I don't recall.

~>  EC> hundreds of chemical weapons after the war.  So did the people who told
 
~> Really?  You mean those empty shells predating 1990?  

The lab in Mosul.  The various components of the chemical program that had
been hidden.  The 500 non-empty chemical munitions.

 
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