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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (100849)6/9/2003 2:11:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
As I've said before, all the administration has to do to head off that conclusion is to release the information on which their conclusions and allegations were based. Why do you suppose they won't do that?

I can think of a few reasons offhand.

First, this administration loves secrecy, so they wouldn't want to release intelligence in any case.

Second, they may have excellent reasons not to release it - the intelligence they have, if it's any good, will touch on not only what Saddam had, but what he did with it. And that means how much of it was shipped to Syria, which is certainly the subject of an ongoing investigation, and a subject where we do NOT want to tip our hand to Bashar Assad.

Third, they are not ready - they have a ton of Iraqi documents that they have yet to sort through, why use iffy intelligence when you have documents in hand?

Fourth, so much of this current yammer is totally political - I was listening to Howard Dean giving a "Bush Lied about the War!" speech yesterday and I swear I heard enormous relief in his tone that he now had a stick to use on Bush and nobody could accuse him of being unpatriotic - that mere evidence is unlikely to satisfy anybody until it dies down. I mean people who can argue with a straight face that Bush lied about Saddam ever having chemical weapons are pretty much immune to evidence.
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