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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Dan B. who wrote (465904)9/27/2003 4:39:04 PM
From: Kevin Rose  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
The failure to find WMDs or Al Qaeda link is indeed moot. So, let's discuss it.

There are two growing possibilities, as we fail to find either of these important premises for invasion:

1) Our intelligence was terrible.

2) Our intelligence was 'enhanced' by those wishing to see Saddam removed from power.

This administration owes the public an investigation into which of these failures we experienced. For a party that was so zealous in investigating Clinton's sex life, it is inconceivably hypocritical to stay silent on this point. For the consequences of this intelligence failure is monumental.

As far as the point as to whether the public would have supported an invasion of Iraq as a purely humanitarian effort, it would be best to ask: do they support an invasion of Burma? North Korea? China? Saudi Arabia? I believe the answer would be a resounding NO.

So, we need to figure out where we failed. Was the intelligence THAT bad that we were so absolutely convinced that Saddam had massive amounts of chemical and biological weapons? Or, was there a 'massaging of evidence and reports' that made it seem so? If so, who did it? Heads should roll; either let's sack the incompetent intelligence people, or whoever massaged the reports.

The ongoing hypocrisy of the right, which demanded an investigation into Whitewater and found nothing but Monica under the desk, is inflaming the moderates of this country. Better watch out, because a steamroller is heading towards Bush...
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