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To: Sam who wrote (110929)	8/11/2003 7:38:45 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

""It is regrettable that some countries still believe that this is our mission entirely. And the U.N. legitimacy and the reaching-out to these other countries is of the essence, not only in the short term but in the intermediate term," Lugar said" The problem is not the leaders of other countries who believe this is our mission entirely...The problem for them is the majority of their citizens never believed in the war and therefore they cannot commit peace keeping troops unless they get the umbrella of the U.N. It appears the Bush administration believe if they went to U.N. for peace keeping troops Iraq would become a quagmire. They would lose control over Iraq major decisions.

To: Sam who wrote (110929)	8/11/2003 9:17:22 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

David Kay Leaks Progress thetip.org <<...In yet another non-committal statement by the Administration, ex CIA stooge turned weapons inspector leaks that they're still looking. Source: TheTip, 2003-08-01 00:00:00.000 David Kay, who is serving as a special adviser for the weapons search, said inspectors have found physical evidence of Iraqi activity on weapons of mass destruction, but he declined to discuss details. He said investigators had made a "tactical and strategic decision" to focus on biological rather than on chemical or nuclear programs, saying, "Those are the areas that we're principally talking about progress." The Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, expressed concern that the searches are being diverted away from finding actual weapons. "Signs of a weapons program are very different than the stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons that were a certainty before the war," Rockefeller said. "We did not go to war to disrupt Saddam's weapons program, we went to disarm him." "It's looking more and more like a case of mass deception," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said after Kay briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee. "There was no imminent danger, and we should never have gone to war."...>>