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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (175688)	11/28/2005 6:07:42 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Thanks for the article.. I don't know much first hand stuff about Curveball as that was WAY before my time there.. But I DO know that, after 5 years of NO inspections, and the maintenance of Iraq's totalitarian internal security apparatus, there really was NO WAY other than bringing down the regime for intelligence analysts to fully understand what was transpiring in Iraq vis a vis WMDS. And that goes RIGHT TO THE HEART of the material breach of UNSC binding resolutions that the world faced (or tried to ignore in the case of certain UNSC members). Think about it.. Even France and Russia, two states who's intelligence agents probably had more access to Iraq than any other nation outside of Iran, were UNABLE to successfully claim that Iraq was in compliance with UNSC resolutions. So curveball or not, we were STILL left with essentially NO hard confirmable intelligence about the status of Iraq's WMD program. And it required over two years and quite a bit of $$$ to finally be able to have that confirmable evidence. Evidence that would NOT have been obtainable by any other means, including UNMOVIC. That's the reality. Hawk

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