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To: portage who wrote (37389)	2/7/2004 3:44:53 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 89467

My apologies..I could not (as of yet) find a photo of John McCain wearing a Clown Costume... Im sure..the Original Bozo will let him borrow one if he Still continues to shovel this BULL$HIT.....LOL T "The Republican senator (John McCain)will sit on a bipartisan commission established by Bush to investigate intelligence failings. He has already said he does not believe the president manipulated the information he received." France Denies All Allies' Iraq Intelligence Wrong 19 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - France on Saturday denied a U.S. senator's charge that it and other Western allies were as wrong as America in their pre-war intelligence on Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s alleged weapons programs. Senator John McCain told reporters at a global security conference: "It wasn't just an American intelligence failure, it was German, it was French, it was British, it was Israeli -- it was all intelligence failures, and we need to find out why that happened." Asked about McCain's comments, French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said France had not reached the same conclusions as "the Anglo-Saxons" on the basis of available intelligence such as satellite photographs. She said that was why Paris had argued against last year's U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) and in favor of letting U.N. inspectors keep searching for the alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD). "It's true that intelligence...has its limits. Knowing how to recognize its limits and find other means is the way to avoid committing mistakes," she told a news conference. Nearly a year after the invasion of Iraq, countries like France and Germany, which fiercely opposed it, still dispute the justification for war cited by President Bush (news - web sites) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites). Dogged by questions about the pre-war intelligence and the way it was used, both leaders have announced independent inquiries into why their spy chiefs believed Saddam had chemical and biological weapons. No such weapons have been found in Iraq since Saddam's fall last April, and Washington's former chief weapons hunter has said he doubts they existed. McCain told reporters in Munich: "It's clear to me that the weapons of mass destruction were not there." The Republican senator will sit on a bipartisan commission established by Bush to investigate intelligence failings. He has already said he does not believe the president manipulated the information he received. STILL NOT CONVINCED The charge that other countries suffered from flawed intelligence is likely to grate with other U.S. allies besides France. German intelligence chiefs have repeatedly said they were skeptical of the U.S. case for war, particularly of Washington's attempt to link Saddam to al Qaeda. "Germany feels that events have proved the position it took at the time to be right," Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told the conference earlier. "We were not and are still not convinced of the reasons for war." Britain and the United States both argued at the Munich gathering for better integration of NATO (news - web sites) intelligence. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the alliance should "do a better job of seeing that the intelligence capabilities of the respective countries are brought together." British Defense Minister Geoff Hoon said successful NATO action against elusive targets in the war on terror would depend on effective intelligence which NATO currently "lacks in an integrated form."