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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (36879)	2/4/2004 1:02:47 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 89467

Yes. When Saddam's two sons held out to the death for hours in their barricaded and fortified compound, we should have lined up volunteer infantrymen to stand up in front of them to be picked off, one by one. Fantastic idea. Why didn't anybody think of that until now?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (36879)	2/4/2004 7:47:41 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Cheney key to Iraq probe, critics say philly.com <<...What went wrong with intelligence on Iraq may never be known unless the inquiry proposed by President Bush examines secret intelligence efforts led by Vice President Cheney and Pentagon hawks, current and former U.S. officials said yesterday. The critics said Bush may limit the inquiry's scope to the CIA and other agencies, and ignore the key role the officials said the administration's own internal intelligence efforts played in making the case for war. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, did not dispute that the CIA failed to accurately assess the state of Iraq's weapons programs. But they said intelligence efforts led by Cheney magnified the errors through exaggeration, oversights and mistaken deductions. Those efforts bypassed normal channels, used Iraqi exiles and defectors of questionable reliability, and produced findings on former dictator Saddam Hussein's links to al-Qaeda and his illicit arms programs that were disputed by analysts at the CIA, the State Department and other agencies, the officials said. "There were more agencies than CIA providing intelligence... that are worth scrutiny, including the [Pentagon's now-disbanded] Office of Special Plans and the office of the vice president," said a former senior military official who was involved in planning the Iraq invasion. Some of the disputed findings were presented as facts to Americans as Bush stated his case for war. Those findings included allegations of cooperation between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, Cheney's assertion that Iraq had rebuilt its nuclear-weapons program and would soon have a nuclear bomb, and Bush's contention in his 2003 State of the Union address that Hussein was seeking nuclear bomb-making material from Africa. Senior officials yesterday revealed new details of how Cheney's office pressed Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to use large amounts of disputed intelligence in a February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council that laid out the U.S. case for an invasion...>>

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (36879)	2/4/2004 10:27:07 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

"Kerry's overwhelming victories in Missouri and Arizona, the two biggest prizes in terms of convention delegates, and his strong showing in South Carolina, displayed a breadth of appeal to all segments in the party that put him in this position in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination: It's his to lose." -Michael Tackett in the Chicago Tribune