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To: Ilaine who wrote (50544)	6/29/2004 1:26:30 AM
From: jjkirk	of 793896

Hi Blue, Yes, Chalabi was a self-serving weak reed. Given our weakness in humint in the Arab and Muslim world, we should have looked beyond him for clues for what to expect. You may remember that unclewest was lamenting the fact that post-war internal security was being given short shrift in the runup to the war. We can second guess the administration all day long, but we can only go forward, not backward from this point. I must have missed the Bush speech wherein he tied Saddam to 9/11. However, if we can believe what Putin has said lately about the Al Qaeda-Iraq pre-war connections, the historians will agree on that one too. And this evening, I heard Tony Snow discussing yellow cake that may yet show that Saddam was working to obtain material to build elementary nucs. Military intelligence has always shown a strong biochem wpns capability in Iraq. No western army since WWI has had to deal with the level of chem warfare we saw in the Iran-Iraq war. My mind will remain open and the President will have the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise...and, as you intimate, that could take awhile. jj

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