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To: Sig who wrote (106664)	7/20/2003 2:01:22 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"based on intelligence that showed no inclination on his part to stop seeking WMD's or even account for those he once had." It looks like his failure to account may have been sheer intransigence, or incompetence- since it looks like he had less than even the inspectors thought he had- hardly a good reason for a war (imo). I'm not sure what intelligence you are talking about with regard to "based on intelligence that showed no inclination on his part to stop seeking WMD's" You're phrased it in the negative, and used the word "inclination" which I do not like- we don't usually look for inclinations not to do something. I think our intelligence was aimed at gathering data on what he was doing (rather than inclination- which isn't really a sensible grounds for starting wars...imo...it's one of those mind reading things). So if you think the data really shows he was amassing WMD's (not just inclined, at some point uncertain, to amass something, also uncertain) I'd like your link to that good, reliable, data.