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To: abstract who wrote (60701)	2/5/2004 11:50:54 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

"no way those are his own words" Those were his precise words, verbatim, in context & properly framing the issue. Feel free to watch President Bush say those words. Just go to the link I provided & click on 'Multimedia - 'View' - to the right of, "President Delivers "State of the Union", or click on 'Listen' to hear President Bush say those words..... whitehouse.gov

To: abstract who wrote (60701)	2/6/2004 12:30:48 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

"is there not a difference between what Tenet and Bush are saying. i see a difference, or is it just my news sources?" I'd bet it is the latter. I chose to go directly to the sources & compare precisely what each of them actually said. I think that CIA Director George Tenet, in his own words, makes it clear that President Bush & Senior Administration Officials relied upon essentially the same evidence that the Senate & the House relied upon when they voted overwhelmingly to authorize the use of force. He reported that every major Intelligence service in the world, including countries that opposed the war, came to essentially the same conclusions RE: WMD's & WMD Programs. Tenet's presentation was detailed, balanced & fully supportive of the Bush Administration's ultimate decision to remove Saddam. On the WMD issue alone, the decision to remove Saddam was appropriate IMO. Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence (Opening statements) Message 19774077 UAV's - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774091 the nuclear issue - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774112 biological weapons - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774132 Mobile WMD Labs - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774161 chemical weapons - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774179 estimates are not written in a vacuum - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774191 "Why haven't we found the weapons?" - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774249 We must constantly review the quality of our work - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774273 our judgments were not single-threaded - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774287 A blanket indictment of our human intelligence around the world is dead wrong -Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774297 We cannot afford an environment to develop where analysts are afraid to make a call, where judgments are held back because analysts fear they will be wrong - Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence Message 19774338 How long do you let... material breach, deception and denial go on before you risk with the kind of surprise that I could never fully and 100 percent predict? Message 19774372 none of the countries and allied services that we were working with in the time saw this any differently Message 19774382 the Office of Special Programs Message 19774392 How do you figure out exactly what the regime is trying to do, when they're, in fact, deceiving themselves? Message 19774402 President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat whitehouse.gov President Delivers "State of the Union" whitehouse.gov Remarks to the United Nations Security Council Secretary Colin L. Powell state.gov