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To: Ilaine who wrote (123060)	1/12/2004 12:17:57 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "Finally, O'Neill's statement to Time magazine, "I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction," is bizarre. From 1995 on, UNSCOM reported that Iraq retained major elements of its proscribed weapons programs." O'Neill wasn't in office in 1995. As to the presence of WMDs in Iraq during the current Bush administration, Ken Pollack, neocon, has just admitted that there were none. -- Carl

To: Ilaine who wrote (123060)	1/12/2004 1:10:54 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Curiouser and curiouser. The oil document should be easy to verify one way or the other. I'm sure the Blogosphere will be on it. What got me, looking at 60 Minutes, was O'Neill's professed astonishment that anyone should think he was attacking President Bush or portraying him unfavorably. It surely is not possible that O'Neill can be as naive as that. So what's the story? And I don't understand what he thinks he means by "I saw no evidence of WMDs" when it was the established verdict of every intelligence service during this period, not just ours, that Saddam had not given them up - and all the clues pointed that way. As Pollack says, Saddam worked at fooling even his own generals into believing he still had WMDs, let along Western intelligence services. Who'd a thunk Saddam would pay 200 billion dollars for absolutely nothing? It's also curious how "Bush was planning Iraq all along!" plays into the current political fight. After all, regime change in Iraq was the proclaimed policy of the Clinton Administration, so what was new about Bush's stance? But, as with religion, everybody knew that Clinton was jes' talkin'. It only gets scary if they think you mean it. Bush must be fuming. We know how he hates this kind of kiss and tell political attack.