No WMD produced in Iraq since 1991, says top US arms inspector

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Personally, I still say it's too early to jump to any conclusions.  Remember the relative size of the quantities of chemicals were are talking about here.  Most of Saddam's supposive Sarin, when in liquid form, would fit into one tanker truck.  Now, if I were to hide that tanker in the open in California, how long will it take you to find it?  Now consider if I burried the tanker.  How much longer?

Let's put this into a real life scenario which might help you better understand this.  For 3 full months, US and coalition troops were marching and camping over a squadron of MiGs just outside of Baghdads airport.  No one knew what was under their feet for 3 months!  It took a sand storm and a pro-coalition Iraqi to point out that part of a plane was uncovered by the wind.  If it took "chance" to find a squadron of planes, what will it take to find a tanker truck?

Think about it.  (This is assuming that the Sarin wasn't shipped out of the country.)

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Bush - Stay there indefinitely
Kerry - Stay there a few more years
Badnarik, Cobb, Peroutka, Nader- Leave as soon as is safely possible.

I believe Bush's true stance is to keep the forces there until peace has settled in and the Iraqi government asks us to leave.  However, the US is petitioning to place a US base in Iraq (similar to what it did in Germany and Japan following WII) to ensure that peace remains and the Democratic process has a chance to work, as well as gives us a new launching pad in the region (now that we are leaving Saudi Arabia).