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To: KonKilo who wrote (109611)	8/3/2003 9:40:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I believe that they thought they'd at least find a few biological and chemical substances, enough to spin into "we found the WMD", as they actually attempted to do with the two canvas-sided trailers. I believe they thought they'd find lots of BW and CW. As one embedded reporter noted, the troops he was with donned their chem warfare suits 22 times on the way into Baghdad. But it doesn't sound like we're so far apart on this point...which means that the "means" we are arguing over the "ends" justifying is: hyping a threat which, according to their best intelligence, was pretty damn imminent and dire, but their intelligence turned out to be wrong. Now having wrong intelligence is pretty bad, but, as I've noted about a thousand times, Saddam sure had everybody fooled on this point. Arguing honestly with intelligence that turns out to be does not strike me as a dastardly "means"; you keep implying that deliberate deceptions were involved without offering any evidence.