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To: Ilaine who wrote (101223)	6/13/2003 9:46:08 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I wish, desperately, that Saddam was really a misunderstood pussy cat, that there are no WMD, and that nobody in the Ba'ath regime ever played footsie with Al Qaeda. It interests me to observe the ritual changing of the issues. The, as far as I can see, should not revolve around the question of whether Saddam had or ever had some WMD capability, or whether Saddam or any of his people ever "played footsie" with Al Qaeda. The question, as far as I can see, is this: Was the degree of threat posed by Saddam deliberately exaggerated in order to justify the war? I think it's fairly clear that the threat level was exaggerated. What we don't know is whether this exaggeration is based on lousy intel or politically convenient cherrypicking of the available information. Since the administration clearly wanted the war, and a threat was necessary to make the war publicly acceptable, there was clearly a motive to distort. It's the sort of motive that politicians generally don't resist.