41.   Costly and duplicative weapons programs, fueled by intra-service rivalries, distort the defense budget and American military capabilities.

42.   Davis said the biggest problem is that no inspections are currently going on, giving Iraq wide berth to proceed with weapons programs.

43.   Eliminating any major weapons program is a formidable task.

44.   Federal regulators are likely to scrutinize the deal to determine its impact on specific weapons programs.

45.   For now, the United States and Britain stand almost alone in their insistence on effective measures to curb Iraqi weapons programs.

46.   For now, sanctions are the only effective means to restrain these weapons programs.

47.   France and Russia have criticized the strikes, and there are signs the strategy hampers U.N. Security Council negotiations over creating a new weapons inspection program in Iraq.

48.   He added that he believed that Russian military leaders have used that fact to blackmail Yeltsin into continuing a secret biological weapons program.

49.   He favors military pay raises and expensive new weapons acquisition programs as well as expanded plans for missile defense.

50.   He also noted that nations sponsoring terrorism have biological weapons programs.