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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (29933)6/10/2004 8:32:50 AM
From: redfishRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
Given how the intelligence agencies have performed for the past twenty years, slashing their budgets by 3/4 would be sensible.

They have generally done more harm than good. They overestimated U.S.S.R.'s strength by a consider magnitude, failed to prevent 9/11, and were totally wrong about Iraq and the WMDs. We would have been better off if the agencies didn't exist.

Of course doing the sensible thing is totally unacceptable in the U.S., so Kerry will have to dance around it.

PS: Novak should be horse-whipped for being a slimy traitor.
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