Re: "Basically, most of the world was looking into a fog, and all the intelligence agencies, including our own, knew that."
One wonders what this means. So all the intelligence agencies were seeing clearly, and were not in a fog, eh? Interesting isn't it then, that they all believed Saddam surely had WMD's? Or, am I to suppose you think they weren't in fog, but purposefully lied? I plainly gather you don't think alleged "caveats and equivocation" on the part of our own intelligence folks indicated there was any kind of fog around them. Heck, you know intelligence from countries which did not join the coalition indicated Saddam surely had WMD's.
What I say may not mean much to you now, but I tell you surely, Nadine's reply to you contained information that is absolutely necessary to understand what went on, and frankly, knowing it does one hell of a lot to buffer what you seem to believe is clear cut.
Let's just say our faulty intelligence WAS foggy. But let's say it was sincere and led us to engage in a very fitting liberation of Iraq. Saddam continued to seek clandestine channels to import rockets and weapons outlawed to it 'til the end. Saddam's Iraq never condemned 911, but predicted more was coming soon, speaking very much as an insider to the act. Saddam monetarily supported various terrorist organizations, almost certainly including Al Qaeda itself. It remains quite plausible that information indicating Saddams Iraq helped train 911 hijackers is true (hardly preposterous you know, given who Saddam was).
Dan B. |
