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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (118956)	11/11/2003 10:12:46 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Part 3 of 3 But one thing is firm.. British Intelligence (whom Bush quoted in his SOTU speech) remains convinced there was some Niger-Iraq connection. And given the French connections to Niger's Uranium mining industry, it wouldn't susprise me. That wasn't what I heard in England. Blair is being accused as much or more than Bush was for spinning the truth and rigging the intelligence estimate. There were internal e-mails from analysts that the estimate was being politically driven rather than driven by analysis. A few months ago. There was a survey of Brits where 60% thought Blair should resign. The conservative party leader at the time, Ian Duncan Smith, was quite vocal about Blair lying. We have 1400 DIA officers/contractors over there searching for WMDs. That's FAR MORE than UNSCOM/UNMOVIC ever possessed. Wanna sign up and go yourself? If I was PCS'ed there, I might go. But since I don't have expertise in Arabic languages or the the bio-chemical sciences I think it's unlikely. They are entirely welcome to join and assist, so far as I know. The US was quite clear that we were not welcomed when UNMOVIC did exist and the US was not interested in extending the life of UNMOVIC. And besides, the UN can't even secure its own headquarters... Presumably you're not talking about New York, but rather the UN facility in Iraq. Isn't it the responsibility of the occupying power to provide security in Iraq? We have 1400 DIA officers/contractors over there searching for WMDs. That's FAR MORE than UNSCOM/UNMOVIC ever possessed. Good example of quantity vs. quality. Isn't it ironic that UNSCOM/UNMOVIC found far more than the US has found? Admittedly, we found some vans used to produce hydrogen gas. We also found a bunch of nuclear related documentation that was mostly unclassified [a student's thesis] and some classified documents that were dated from the early 90's [but nothing that indicated an ongoing program.] By any measure UNSCOM/UNMOVIC was far more successful in finding shit, then the US is. And in the latest budget authorization we're reducing the effort at finding WMD. That perhaps doesn't mean anything to you. jttmab End.

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