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To: Win Smith who wrote (123173)	1/13/2004 9:38:05 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." -- Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002. And that's the same thing Bill Clinton believed to his recent comments. And it's what the intelligence agencies of 15 UNSC members apparently believed when they permitted their leaders to vote to declare Iraq in material breach.. And it's what Saddam Hussein apparently wanted the rest of the world to believe by using his deliberate ambiguity and lack of cooperation with UN inspections. And it's the same information that the best CIA, DIA, and NSA analysts were able to derive, given the lack of transparency over 5 years of terminated inspections. And we know that there are still some 500 tonnes of WMD material unaccounted for, according to Iraqi records (totaling some 6,000 warheads). IOW, it's easy to play armchair general and Monday morning quarterback.. But intelligence is never an exact art, nor a certain predictor. And it certainly cannot overcome deliberate deception by the enemy. Hawk