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To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (916)	1/13/2004 1:21:34 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Kenneth Pollack, former CIA analyst and member of the NSC during the Clinton administration..... Yup, lots of outsiders with anti-war, anti-America & anti- Bush views. Veracity, accuracy, facts & reality are consistently among their shortcomings. Clinton himself, current CIA analysts & current members of the NSC, ET AL,, some from the Clinton Admin have access to current data & hold more informed views however...... Clinton believed Iraq had WMD Fri 9 Jan 2004 Message 19674178 STATEMENT BY DAVID KAY ON THE INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE IRAQ SURVEY GROUP (ISG) fas.org Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction Statement by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet on the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction Message 19669853 Powell Defends Bush-Style Diplomacy Message 19670571 Message 19670589 Iraq's WMD Programs: Culling Hard Facts from Soft Myths odci.gov Iraq's WMD's Strategic Choices, Intelligence Challenges Robert Hutchings Chairman, National Intelligence Council Message 19669942 Powell Says Kay Report Confirms Iraq Defied U.N. Res. 1441 usinfo.state.gov Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs fas.org The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Message 19506425

To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (916)	1/15/2004 8:50:55 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

.....In March 2002 Kenneth Pollack, Clinton's director of Gulf Affairs on the National Security Council, warned that the policy of "containment" was failing. "The last two years have witnessed a dramatic erosion of the constraints on the Iraqi regime," he wrote in Foreign Affairs. "If no more serious action is taken, the United States and the world at large may soon confront a nuclear-armed Saddam."..... ....In the meantime, we have found evidence that Saddam planned to develop a clandestine capability that would produce such weapons as disease bombs on a just-in-time basis..... startribune.com

To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (916)	1/16/2004 12:51:31 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Hmmmm..... some folks want to give Kenneth Pollack a pass, but use the same reasons to blame Bush..... 'Bush lied' and the lying liars who perpetuate it ....the online magazine Slate has been hosting an interesting discussion among the most respected and prominent liberals who supported the Iraq war. The question before them, more or less, is whether they regret it. Some do. Some don't. Most hold positions awash in shades of gray. One of those is Kenneth Pollack, the former Clinton NSC staffer and author of the hugely influential book, "The Threatening Storm." Pollack's book was the most coherent and sustained case for the war from any quarter. Slate's round-robin is timed to coincide with a must-read cover story in the current issue of The Atlantic in which Pollack tries to figure out where he - and we - went wrong on WMDs. Anyway, Pollack tells Slate, "If I had to write 'The Threatening Storm' over again I certainly would not have been so unequivocal that war was going to be a necessity." In response, George Packer, a prominent liberal hawk, says, "Ken Pollack should be congratulated: How many leading voices on this issue have subjected themselves to such honest criticism? What he got wrong he got wrong because the intelligence was mistaken. What the administration got wrong it got wrong because it didn't care about the intelligence." This encapsulates pretty much everything that's wrong with even the White House's most respected critics: a nearly total inability to consider the possibility that this administration operated in good faith. Packer says Pollack's mistake was based on the best intelligence available; however, Bush & Co are a bunch of bloodthirsty ideologues or greedy liars or both.