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damgo
Bush and the Chickenhawk Brigade like to cite Saddam's alleged possession of WMDs, combined with the possibility that he might give them to terrorists, or use them against the USA himself, as a justification for military action. The standard response to this is to point out that 1) Saddam is no friend to Islamist terrorists, and 2) he isn't stupid enough to use WMD against a country capable of massive retaliation, and refrained from doing so in Gulf War I.
But I was thinking about this today, and there's a far more serious problem: waaay too many "rogue" states already possesses WMDs... and many of them, unlike Iraq, have governments that are very sympathetic to Islamist terrorists. This is not good.
So, here is a good list of countries with bio/chem weapons. It's pretty damn frightening. Among the places listed are Algeria, Ethiopia, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, the Yugoslavic republics. Needless to say Iran, Libya, and Syria are significant state sponsors of terrorism. It would be easy for them to 'lose' a few vials of VX... and the USA can't fight them all.
resources: http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/wmd.htm
http://cns.miis.edu/research/cbw/index.htm
But I was thinking about this today, and there's a far more serious problem: waaay too many "rogue" states already possesses WMDs... and many of them, unlike Iraq, have governments that are very sympathetic to Islamist terrorists. This is not good.
So, here is a good list of countries with bio/chem weapons. It's pretty damn frightening. Among the places listed are Algeria, Ethiopia, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, the Yugoslavic republics. Needless to say Iran, Libya, and Syria are significant state sponsors of terrorism. It would be easy for them to 'lose' a few vials of VX... and the USA can't fight them all.
resources: http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/wmd.htm
http://cns.miis.edu/research/cbw/index.htm
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