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To: TimF who wrote (53065)	11/6/2006 3:29:31 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) of 90947

>>Because of concerns about WMD does not equal because of current large stockpiles of WMD. And even more latent WMD concerns were not the only reason, just the number one reason.<< Tim - Right. WMDs past, present, and future were given as the number one reason we should attack Iraq. And as the Senate Intelligence Committee that investigated the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate that formed the main basis for the Administration's claims about WMD found, the raw intelligence we had did not support the contention that Saddam had any WMDs, nor did it support the contention that he had an infrastructure for developing them. Some people here have suggested that my view on this matter isn't grounded in reality. Well, I don't have access to the raw Intelligence data and you don't either. So I'm forced to look for authoritative sources of information. Here's why I choose to believe the Senate Intelligence Committee. They had access to the raw intelligence, and they spent a long time looking at it before making their report. I'm just going to go along with their conclusions, because it seems that a bipartisan Senate committee chaired by a Republican wouldn't have reached that conclusion if it weren't so. As I said before, if we knew then what we know now about the absence of WMDs in Iraq, there would never have been a vote to authorize the use of force, and we wouldn't be stuck there now. It would be an irrelevant discussion at this moment, but some people keep insisting that the case for WMDs has been proved. All I'm saying is that I haven't seen any such proof from any authoritative source. - Allen

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