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Andrew P. Hunter: “Yes. I think one French engineer was killed that way. There was one engineer working on a Saturday or Sunday at the…”

On the recordMarch 6, 2003
Yes. I think one French engineer was killed that way. There was one engineer working on a Saturday or Sunday at the Iraqi site. As I recall, there was one engineer killed. My point is, the world has two faces; one face in which they, too, are deathly afraid of an emerging nuclear capability on the part of Saddam Hussein, and terrified with the present-day chemical and biological weapons capability. They do not want him to hurt them, they want us to protect them. On the other hand, those people, especially the people that Don Rumsfeld describes as those who live in the neighborhood, who have to deal with them, are going to be very reluctant to publicly say that the bully should be taken on, because the bully is going to remember what they said.
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Andrew P. Hunter
Illinois

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Discussing global reactions to Saddam Hussein's weapons capabilities.

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