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To: tejek who wrote (170712)	6/9/2003 4:59:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1583376

Are you suggesting typos then? No. Besides lies other explanations of not finding WMD would be. 1 - It was there but was destroyed or moved away in the months leading up to the war. 2 - It still there but maybe not as much of it as we thought and it never gets found. 3 - Knowledge that WMD were there earlier, and some intelligence information that they where still there combined to make people in the intelligence organizations think that WMD were still there and downplay the other bits of information that suggested maybe they where not. 4 - Total intelligence failure. More information suggested that large amounts of WMD where there then suggested any other possibility but the information was simply inaccurate. And of course all the above was assuming that no WMD is ever found in Iraq. If you don't make that assumption you also get 5 - WMD will be found. ''The way it's briefed is in the category of 'hey we think this is going on' (but we don't have absolute proof),'' he added. That's normally the way things work. Unless they are parading the stuff through downtown Baghdad a lot of the time you won't know exactly what a country like Iraq has. Some people analyzing the information will feel certain it says one thing, others will feel certain it says something else, and still others will tell you they don't know (but probably hide that conclusion amid 100 pages providing detail about other things that are known and speculation about the current subject, rather then just come right out and say "I don't know"). Tim