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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (125125)	2/26/2004 3:45:40 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<This has ALL been about politics> For you that applies Hawk -- it explains why the truth does not play an important role in your rants. It is incorrect to say that intelligence services of ANY country, much less all of them, supported the uneqivocal statements coming from the White House (from Bush, from Cheney, from Powell, from Rumsfeld) as they beat the war drum. The Russians made their doubts clear, and agreed to change their minds on an invasion if there was any concrete proof of Iraqi WMD -- but there was no proof from the White House. Without WMD the Russions saw no justification for an invasion -- a view shared by most of the people in the rest of the world. They, like France and Germany, favored inspections which had proven to be highly effective to develop further intelligence as to whether or not there were any WMD in Iraq before signing on to a UN-authorized invasion. There could not have been proof as we now know because, in the words of Mr. Kay, "we were wrong" and the deep Russian, German, French and Chinese skepticism proved to be right. The UN inspectors had indeed done an extraordinarily effective job under very trying circumstances. That is the truth.

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