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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Huang who wrote (24021)	3/31/2003 9:22:56 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

The Israeli Wolfowitz relied on Israeli intelligence 1- goad us into this war 2- and to be ill prepared for the reality of the fight == Judith Yaphe, the chief CIA analyst on Iraq during the first Gulf War, said that Mr Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, consistently preferred to rely on the optimism of Iraqi opposition groups in exile, and Israeli intelligence. "It was a fantasy," she said. "They had a strategic vision that we would face no opposition, that everyone would surrender, that Iraqis would throw rose petals and rice. Clearly those judgments were not based on reality." full telegraph.co.uk