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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (219192)2/18/2007 4:04:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
It's a very specific implication akin to "When 2 plus 2 equals 4, this administration came up with 7".

However, Pillar never demonstrates what the 2 and 2 actually are. Also, his argument presents the very strong implication that if the CIA says it's 4, nobody else is to add in any other numbers from any other sources. They must obediently repeat "it's 4" and base their policy making ONLY on CIA approved data - data, which as Feith et. al. have pointed out, had been quite substantially filtered due to the CIA's theories of the Mideast. The difference between this stance and actual prescribing of policy is a fine one, to say the least.

I do quite agree with Pillar that the Administration had decided on war, and not for the cause of WMDs. However, as I said to Elroy, Pillar avoids mentioning the reasons that the status quo ante was unacceptable and unsustainable - reasons that we know even more about now that the massively corrupt Oil-For-Food program has been exposed. Pillar seems motived by genuine outrage that any administration would dare not to accept CIA wisdom as the ultimate expertise on the subject.

I may be cynical, but I smell arguments being massaged in hindsight to make sure the CIA smells of roses. No easy task, considering the low quality of their product.
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