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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (118956)	11/11/2003 10:11:53 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Part 2 of 3... ........No change.. no cooperation.. and UNMOVIC was at an impasse. You're a pretty binary person aren't you? They either are, or they are not. As I said in an earlier post...Iraq identified a site where they claimed the weapons were destroyed in the early 90s; the UN confirmed that some weapons were there/destroyed by soil samples and they were in a process of attempting to establish a quantity through scientific means. Good question.. As Mr. Wilson and his wife, as well as the rest of the CIA analysts. Wilson's wife had nothing to do with assessing that. Mr. Wilson claimed the Niger documents were not believed to be valid...the CIA analysts..they either didn't do the assessment [incompetence of one type] or looked and decided they were real [incompetence of another type]. Personnally, I'd like to know who did the forgeries. Purportedly, we got them from Italy, but who did Italy get them from? No one seems to care. And who told them that? The US? The same nation that was forcing its own troops to operate in MOPP 3 at all times? Another relatively inane question. Inane? You think that Iceland told Kuwait that they didn't need gas masks for their population. I asked the same question to a staffer on one of the intelligence committees and he/she didn't think it was inane. Now maybe you're a psychic, but I'm not. I have to have proof, or at least feel really comfortable that EVERY cooperation is being extended to me. And that was clearly not the case in Iraq. I'm reasonably comfortable with some cooperation and UN inspectors present. Personnally, I never would have been convinced that Saddam was fully cooperating even if it appeared that he has. Even Saddam's generals believed the Baathists possess Chemical weapons..... We got lots of intel from defectors and informants about Iraq's WMD and WMD programs....they just didn't happen to pan out. Saddam's generals are no different. They lost and they will tell the "winners" whatever they want to hear. There's also other theories being thrown out....Saddam thought he had WMD, but didn't because all his people were lying to him. Then there's the theory that he knew he didn't have any WMD, but wanted everyone to think he had WMD...And by saying he didn't have any WMD, then everyone we would believe that he did have WMD, since everyone knows he lies. end of Part 2 of 3

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