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To: E. T. who wrote (15689)	12/20/2006 10:37:23 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) of 71588

The whole world believed that Iraq had WMDs. They were correct that he had them, but overestimated the quantities. Everyone agrees that he maintained the capability to rapidly restart WMD production. To state the opposite is blatantly false. The CIA seems to have become a vassal of the state department and seems to believe that the CIA can forge foreign policy through embarrassing leaks. To put great credibility in selective embarrassment seems unwise to me. One need look no further than the flagrantly false reporting about Valarie Plame's status as a domestic desk jockey to know that the CIA is not going to support this President. "One doesn't have to be a dreamy-eyed optimist about democracy to recognize that toppling Saddam Hussein was a milestone in slowing the spread of WMD." The White House wanted to go to war with Iraq You keep claiming it, yet I have seen no credible evidence of the assertion. Even if true, removing a despotic dictator that was tied to Al Qaeda and who was paying Arab Israelis to blow themselves up in the Jewish sector was a good long term goal.

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