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File: aacux_02.txtHORNER PORTIONS FROM PAGE 2-31 WITHHELD, NOT HEALTH RELATED Q: At this December 20th briefing, it looks like there was a very long session on the DW. [(b)(l) sec 3.4 (b)(2)] Q: Where we go into the whole business of ________________, but it also looks, at that time, that the decision had not yet been made to hit them. I wonder if you could discuss who made the decision to hit the [(b)(1)] sec 3.4(b)(2)] bunkers? H: It's not a decision; it's a funny thing. That's a good story. The point papers start coming in. They are in the briefing: Hit the bunkers. Hit the bunkers. The White Papers come out; one from America and one from Britain to talk about all life on the Arabian continent being wiped out as a result of these strikes. WelI, I looked at a summary of the papers, and I knew immediately they were wrong because what they do is, they have the bomb going down, hitting the storage areas; and then the stuff going out. Well, everybody knows it's going to go downwind. Now is the questions of what. Then you know intuitively that they have got one spore going to each person. (laughter) You know, equal distribution, 100 percent, because tat is just the way a green peace--- I'm not against environmentalist at all. In fact, I'm an environmentalist; but to make their argument, they overstate. I knew intuitively there was something wrong there, but I wasn't trained or smart enough to attack the papers. Of course they caused some great concern. We knew it would be a subject when Cheney came--that and Scuds. 32 1
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