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Harry Jansen /p>

Mr. Martinovich's rehashing of missile parts exports et al. leaves out some important facts. Nobody asserts that the supposed missile development program was anything other than an attempt by Saddam to cheat by a couple hundred kilometers on the range of the most advanced missile. Why should we worry that these parts surfaced in Rotterdam, or even Jordan? Should Holland be added to the axis of evil?

Mr. Martinovich's most glaring (and unattributed) statement is that a reactor vessel for the fermentation of chemical and biological weapons was on the missile site (now disappeared). How convenient and how disingenuous. Where is the proof? Or should we just take Mr. M's word on it?

p>The tired refrain about the California-size of Iraq holds no water either. One-third of the country was in Kurdish hands (our erstwhile allies, before they were frozen out of most of the nation building) and the another third populated mostly by the oppressed Shia majority. That knocks down the purported hiding places to something less than California. Let's start talking about finding something in a part of a country the size of Wisconsin and let's continue to proclaim that the best-trained, best-equipped military in the world is on the job, getting useful information from happy, cooperative naked men in U.S.-run resorts in Iraq. br> -- Gary Valley /p> p> HONOR BOUND br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Let Them East Deer : /p>

I've enjoyed your work, both serious and humorous, for quite some time. To this day, one of the funniest lines I've ever read was the simple statement, in Current Wisdom many years ago: "Anna Quindlen is on vacation."

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