Ochi reason number one...

[kandrathe]

You seem to be falling victim to "As it is written, so it must be true." You can find sources (even in the US congressional record) to support any ludicrous claims you want, but what you are not doing is synthesizing the information to discover your own truth. Our congress persons are just people, and mostly not the brightest bulbs we have. They have only demonstrated that they are good politicians who were able to convince their constituencies to vote for them. Politicians always get their knowledge from advisors, and it is them and their sources I'm interested in. UNSCOM never claimed to have destroyed 90-95 percent of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, unless it was in the midst of doing so. Why would they leave 5-10 percent if they had discovered it? Their job was to find and destroy 100% of Iraqs WMD capability that they found. And, then how would they know how much was left undiscovered? But we shall soon discover how wrong they were.

And, about biological samples... Back in 1986, it was common practice amongst universities to share research samples for study. That was what went to Iraq, which was supposedly for research on vaccines and beneficial use. After it was discovered that it was being perverted by thugs like Saddam to create biological weapons, it was stopped. Shame on us for being so naive and trusting research universities. Still, out of context. It is a far cry from having a vial of a biological agent and the discovery on how to make it potent, to stabilize it and then weaponize it for use as a biological weapon. Whoever, supplied them with that information and technology are really to blame for Iraq's BW programs.