March 25th, 2003, 04:11 PM
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Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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Originally posted by Some1:
And about the WMD. Why didn't the US took any steps to prevent the israeli get them?
So, does that mean that only US supporters can have WMD?
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Well at the end of the day its almost impossible to stop the profileration of WMDs to the governments that really want them.
Its more of a question about domestic politics and international pressure, with international pressure only going so far.
For example, Indonesia could build them if they wanted to. Australia could easily do it, in fact our chief scientist during the 60s was a huge supporter of chemical, bioligical and nuclear weapons (none of which were -ve words back then). We even starting building a reactor capable of making weapons grade fissile material, but after the foundation was layed it was abandonded because of lack of support in the domestic politics of the day (change of government).
Askan
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