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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (19640)	5/28/2003 11:48:24 AM
From: re3	Respond to of 89467

hey JW weren't you and i gonna get together and do a chip-in on a JPM put ? -g- just like that tune ol' man river it just keeps rollin' along...-ng-

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (19640)	5/28/2003 12:25:28 PM
From: tonka552000	Respond to of 89467

If our intelligence can't say now...how did they know then...??? <gng> Chemical weapons dumped before war? By Eric Schmitt The New York Times NEW YORK -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested publicly for the first time Tuesday that Iraq might have destroyed chemical and biological weapons before the war there, a possibility that senior U.S. officers in Iraq have raised in recent weeks. Rumsfeld has expressed optimism that it is just a matter of time, and interviewing enough senior Iraqi scientists and former government officials, before military teams uncover the illicit arms that President George W. Bush cited as a major reason for attacking Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein's government. While Rumsfeld repeated that assertion Tuesday, he added, "It is also possible that they decided that they would destroy them prior to a conflict." Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, now in northern Iraq, mentioned the same possibility two weeks ago. Senior defense aides insisted that Rumsfeld's response to a question after his speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Tuesday broke no new ground, and was consistent with his past explanations. He said military investigators have been searching in earnest for only seven weeks, that Iraqi weapons might be buried in one of several hundred uninspected sites and that investigators' best leads could come from Iraqi officials who have only recently surrendered or been captured. "I don't know the answer," Rumsfeld said. "I suspect we'll learn a lot more as we go along and keep interrogating people." But the fact that Rumsfeld even raised the possibility that Iraq might have destroyed unconventional weapons before the war prompts new questions about the intelligence Bush and his senior advisers relied on to go to war, and on the credibility of the United States, defense analysts said Tuesday. "They don't have a good explanation, and therefore are trying to come up with as long a list as possible," said Joseph Cirincione, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "But it's impossible to destroy or hide the quantities the administration said they had without our noticing it." Bush, in an interview last month with NBC News, acknowledged, "there's going to be skepticism until people find out there was, in fact, a weapons of mass destruction program."