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To: stockman_scott who wrote (122680)	1/2/2004 6:29:56 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

Colonel David Hackworth wants to find " the unvarnished truth"... I wish him luck, but don't hold your breath. We also need to know why our $30 billion-a-year intelligence agencies didn’t read the tea leaves correctly We know the answer to that...Intelligence is an art not a science. Though that begs the question, How can you have a pre-emptive policy on an unproven or future threat that is based on art? IMO, the current problem is deeper than that. It appears obvious that after 9/11 the Administration decided to take out Saddam. The straw the broke the camel's back was Saddam taking pleasure over 9/11. After that it was a matter of the end justifies the means. Any "reason" was justification for the end. jttmab