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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (33439)	12/23/2003 7:17:45 PM
From: Mannie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

Amazing piece, Rick. This bears repeating: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Cheney said. "There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." Cheney's certitude bewildered Zinni. As chief of the Central Command, Zinni had been immersed in U.S. intelligence about Iraq. He was all too familiar with the intelligence analysts' doubts about Iraq's programs to acquire weapons of mass destruction, or WMD. "In my time at Centcom, I watched the intelligence, and never -- not once -- did it say, 'He has WMD.' " Though retired for nearly two years, Zinni says, he remained current on the intelligence through his consulting with the CIA and the military. "I did consulting work for the agency, right up to the beginning of the war. I never saw anything. I'd say to analysts, 'Where's the threat?' " Their response, he recalls, was, "Silence." Zinni's concern deepened as Cheney pressed on that day at the Opryland Hotel. "Time is not on our side," the vice president said. "The risks of inaction are far greater than the risks of action." Zinni's conclusion as he slowly walked off the stage that day was that the Bush administration was determined to go to war. A moment later, he had another, equally chilling thought: "These guys don't understand what they are getting into."

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (33439)	12/23/2003 8:37:04 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Thanks. Interesting article. Only problem was "Somehow, the neocons captured the president. They captured the vice president." IMO, mentally there isn't much to capture as far as GWB is concerned. The vice president is a very different matter. He's the one that staffed this Admin. It was through him that the entire neo-con cabal received their appointments to positions of power. Cheney is the chief architect of the MIC (Military Industrial Complex) coup d'etat. JMO lurqer