It also will have to abandon the pursuit of a ban on chemical weapons a ban that will not preclude the Saddam Husseins of the world from obtaining or using such devices.

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Or should it be a defensive system like Brilliant Pebbles, capable of defending whole countries and continents against the missiles of the Saddam Husseins of the world or those of resurgent Soviet hardliners?

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Most significantly, the Presidents critics seem determined to ignore the reality that virtually everyone who had monitored Saddam Husseins activities since the first Persian Gulf War (notably, the United Nations, the French, German and Russian intelligence services, the U.S. Congress, most of the Democratic presidential contenders, etc.), had concluded that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and was seeking to increase their numbers and lethal capabilities.

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