Replying to a message of TOM WALKER to MIMI GALLANDT:

 MG>> Yet in spite of all the accusations of White House
"manipulation" --
 MG>> that it pressured intelligence analysts into connecting Hussein and
 MG>> Al Qaeda and concocted evidence about weapons of mass destruction --
 MG>> administration criti continually demonstrate an inability to
 MG>> distinguish making claims based on flawed intelligence from
 MG>> knowingly propagating falsehoods.

 TW> BUT the question stil is out there "Didn't Sadam use Poison GAS on the
 TW> Kurds killing uncounted numbers of them?

Yes he did.  He got the stuff from the US.

 TW> Is NOT Poision Gas a "Weapon of Mass Destruction"??

When I first heard the term 'weapons of mass destruction' - in the 1970s - it
referred only to nukes.  Since Bush minor took office the concept has been blurred.
Biological and chemical weapons don't destroy anything, they just kill.

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