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To: Done, gone. who wrote (27870)	2/4/2004 11:47:20 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 794399

If anybody should be saying "mea culpa" it's Kenneth Pollack. His book, The Threatening Storm - the Case for Invading Iraq, convinced a lot of people, including me, and he's certainly not a politician. Why write a book entitled "the case for invading Iraq" and then later blame politicians? It came out in September, 2002, right in the middle of the debate, and I have no doubt whatsoever that he made a lot of money on it. He was on every TV show and every radio program, as the disinterested voice of reason. That boy needs to get his priorities straight. He traded on his credibility as a CIA analyst, he could do a much better job explaining how he thought what he did and why. And should. Did they have bad information, disinformation? Or did they extrapolate poorly? If the first, where did it come from? Cui bono? It's all going to come out eventually. If there are no more WMD than have been turned up already, this is the gaffe of the century. I am glad Saddam's gone, and all that, but if there are no WMD then US intelligence credibility is totally destroyed. Reminds me of sending fake cigars to Castro and slipping LSD to soldiers. Kiddy stuff. Or the whacked out general in Dr. Strangelove. Too bizarre to comprehend. Or making 18 year old girls take oaths that they are not communists before letting them wash lab glass for minimum wage. We were crazy back then, maybe we're still crazy, or crazy again.

To: Done, gone. who wrote (27870)	2/4/2004 12:00:35 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794399

[Pollack] This is an edited version of an article which appears in the current issue of Atlantic Monthly. ... which, for the sake of completeness, was posted at FADG in #reply-19677472

To: Done, gone. who wrote (27870)	2/4/2004 5:44:04 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 794399

If we had not gone in for the novelty of preemptive war, and if we had waited for a real casus belli, rather than a "what if" and a "he might", we would be spared a great deal of public embarrassment, and we could have analyzed the intelligence failures without having spent costofwar.com