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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (373)2/5/2004 7:01:10 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
How long do you let... material breach, deception and
denial go on before you risk with the kind of surprise
that I could never fully and 100 percent predict?

- Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence

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QUESTION: I think you've done a good job outlining why the issues today do not constitute an intelligence failure. However, how do you think realistically this issue will be perceived in the future by the international community?

TENET: Well, I think that the interesting piece, of course, is <font size=4>the international community itself, through the United Nations and its inspection process over the years, clearly understood the nature of this regime.

They clearly understood the deception and the denial that this regime had engaged in. And they clearly were frustrated by what Saddam Hussein would not comply with. They clearly recognized that even the data declaration he provided us in 2002 was phony. And at the end of the day, they have now learned from the Iraqi Survey Group that Saddam Hussein was in material breach of Resolution 1441.

Now, here's the problem we have when we talk about issues as difficult as this. How long do you let -- and this is a policy decision; our policy-makers made a different choice -- how long do you let material breach, deception and denial go on before you risk with the kind of surprise that I could never fully and 100 percent predict?

This is the question we were faced with.

The international community may have different views, but they can't walk away from the record the international community developed about Saddam Hussein himself.
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