On Dec 10, 11:27*pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 12/10/2010 6:38 AM dgk spake thus:

Exactly right. Remember they first tried to set up Gadaffi sp? as
the big threat but a guy in a dress isn't really seen as too
threatening. So they went for Saddam as the big need to arm. Oh,
weapons of mass destruction! How quaint, gas as a WMD. I suppose so,
but compared to the way we can kill, not really.

And of course, we (and you Harry) were the ones who did supply Saddam
with the gas.

Can't have a big military-industrial complex without something to
fear. Hey, let's turn 20 guys with boxcutters into a reason to double
the defense budget!!!

And that, boys and girls, is how we ended up with what I like to call
... the War on Tourism.

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Comment on quaint Usenet customs, from Usenet:

* *To me, the *plonk...* reminds me of the old man at the public hearing
* *who stands to make his point, then removes his hearing aid as a sign
* *that he is not going to hear any rebuttals.

I think you'll find Saddam got his basic WMD chemicals from an
agricultural chemical supplier in Germany. (They use nerve gas
derivatives to make insecticides.)
Nerve gases were discovered accidently by the Germans during WW2.