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To: stockman_scott who wrote (60689)2/2/2004 11:49:40 AM
From: Jill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 65232
 
That's a good piece. I agree with its sentiments, mostly.

BTW, if it was failed intelligence, then we have two major instances of failed intelligence--one leading up to 9/11, and the other leading to a war over WMD. If that is the case, then the administration should be up in arms and so should Americans, because our intelligence is apparently really shoddy.



To: stockman_scott who wrote (60689)2/3/2004 4:17:58 PM
From: abstract  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 65232
 
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he does not know whether he would have recommended an invasion of Iraq if he had been told it had no stockpiles of banned weapons, even as he offered a broad defense of the Bush administration's decision to go to war.

msnbc.msn.com



To: stockman_scott who wrote (60689)2/5/2004 4:31:21 PM
From: abstract  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 65232
 
This sounds like an external airing of an internal disagreement, with significant repercussions:

WASHINGTON-- In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said Thursday that U.S. analysts had never claimed Iraq was an imminent threat, the main argument used by President Bush for going to war.

suntimes.com