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To: Neocon who wrote (118381)	11/3/2003 4:48:23 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (5) of 281500

There is certainly no reason to portray Chirac's position as somehow purer than Blair's, Oh, I think we're going to discover that their is far more behind the French and Russian intransigence than is currently known. Here's a sample of a well-written Post article on the information Tarik Aziz is providing: washingtonpost.com Aziz has told interrogators that French and Russian intermediaries repeatedly assured Hussein during late 2002 and early this year that they would block a U.S.-led war through delays and vetoes at the U.N. Security Council. Later, according to Aziz, Hussein concluded after private talks with French and Russian contacts that the United States would probably wage a long air war first, as it had done in previous conflicts. By hunkering down and putting up a stiff defense, he might buy enough time to win a cease-fire brokered by Paris and Moscow. Aziz's account, while provocative, has not been corroborated by other sources, said U.S. officials involved in the interrogations. They said they were aware that Aziz might be trying to pander to his American captors' anger at French and Russian conduct before the war. If they find corroborating evidence (which NSA might already have), this could be a tremendous amount of leverage to hang over the French and Russian governments. Btw, apparently another article mentioned that "Doc-Ex" intel experts in Iraq have uncovered an archive of intelligence related records and documents that rival that of the Stasi (East Germany).. Apparently those documents were something like 9 1/2 miles high (if put in a stack). Going likely be a tremendous amount of intelligence windfall derived from that. And lots of people are going to have some explaining to do. Hawk

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