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To: NickSE who wrote (99673)	5/31/2003 3:09:33 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

FYI, there are no Vanity Fair tapes. They didn't bother recording the interview with Wolfowitz. Do you have a link on that? The one you provided was about public opinion survey numbers. As for the information in the link, it's not at all about the consequences of the NYTimes stuff. Given the politicization of the media (Fox, Washington Times, et al), it's no wonder. Moreover, the link suggests an ambiguous public judgment. Not the slam dunk you seem to think it is.

To: NickSE who wrote (99673)	5/31/2003 3:47:40 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

"FYI, there are no Vanity Fair tapes. They didn't bother recording the interview with Wolfowitz." There is this from: "Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair" "...and one that has gone by almost unnoticed--but it's huge--is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia.... Q: Was that one of the arguments that was raised early on by you and others that Iraq actually does connect, not to connect the dots too much, but the relationship between Saudi Arabia, our troops being there, and bin Laden's rage about that, which he's built on so many years, also connects the World Trade Center attacks, that there's a logic of motive or something like that? Or does that read too much into -- Wolfowitz: No, I think it happens to be correct. The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason, ...." defenselink.mil