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To: zonder who wrote (156972)	5/7/2003 9:28:17 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<<Crying Wolf <<....It will cause the world to wonder if our government's claims of Baghdad's forbidden weapons were in error (thus questioning our intelligence agencies) or misleading (thus questioning our character). Our friends will be less likely to come to our aid in all matters. Our enemies will reason that they need to pursue their weapons programs, not abandon them, in the face of this threat from a lumbering giant. As popular as President Bush is today, as assured as he looks bounding onto the deck of an aircraft carrier named for another president, Abraham Lincoln, who changed the justification for a war half-way through, it would be no act of patriotism for the people, Congress, even Democrats running for president, to let this matter go. If Saddam's terror weapons are not found soon, we owe ourselves, our armed forces and the world an honest assessment of where our intelligence went wrong and, if it was wrong, whether it was underfunding, ineptitude or political spin that caused it to be wrong. Even if the threat was not real this time, it may be next time. But it won't matter if no one believes us.>> sltrib.com