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To: KLP who wrote (10266)	10/2/2003 9:57:24 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793694

I was researching Wilson on Lexis-Nexis yesterday - immediately before the war with Iraq, and even during the war, he was warning the US military to take Saddam's WMD seriously, that he had them and would use them. But he was talking about chemical warfare, not nuclear. I haven't read all gazillion news reports since his "sweet mint tea" editorial, it overwhelms Lexis-Nexis, but assume that this position hasn't changed since then. Doesn't he still say Saddam had chemical weapons?

To: KLP who wrote (10266)	10/2/2003 12:40:05 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793694

Karen, a lot of the questions you offer here are not going to be answered but one can be. Question: Why did it take 1 year from Wilsons trip to Niger in Feb 2002 to this Feb 2003 and this interview (below) indicating that he believed Saddam had WMD....and then AFTER the war this spring, write the article in June this year, and now is on every media outlet he can find? I think there is little doubt that Wilson was a part of a group, which includes Ken Pollack, of agency employees, former agency employees, and some folk at the state department, who thought Saddam had chemical and biological production capabilities at least, perhaps even weapons, but were not convinced he had anything serious in the way of nuclear capabilities. So it's not surprising he would suspect chemical and biological in Feb. of 03. A lot of folk did. I certainly did. As for Wilson's Times summer op ed piece, that was specifically about Bush's claim vis a vis the Niger materials that appeared in the State of the Union speech.