>>But what behaviour change is needed to preclude a war? After all, Arafat renounced terrorism, but you didn't believe him. So if Syria does too, why would anyone expect you (you and the cabal) to believe them?
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>Arafat renouncing terrorism is about as funny as Saddam outlawing WMDs.
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>>It's beginning, faster than I thought it would, to look like North Korea was right - that you'd better HAVE WMDs to keep the U.S. at bay.
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>Does Canada have WMDs? Saudi Arabia? Any country in Africa?

Canada certainly has the potential for nuclear, and I'm sure we're capable of making any chemical we want.
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>>Pity the lousy world we are living in now.
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>>Apparently the U.S. is NOT in favour of a proposal by the Arab League to have the entire middle east region declared and proven to be a WMD-FREE zone. I wonder why?
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>Where are you getting this information?

Heard it mentioned today on CNN, shortly after the Kuwaiti Foreign ?Minister? and the secretary of State (General Powell) held a short news conference. It was news to me too, actually.
UPDATE Memory came back. It was a Syrian government official who related this to a CNN interviewer. I wonder why we've never heard about it here?