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To: GST who wrote (125011)	2/24/2004 5:55:45 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

Watch out for incoming: cnn.com

To: GST who wrote (125011)	2/25/2004 7:11:41 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

I am interested in US national security So was Saddam Hussein... So was Jaques Chirac and Vlad Putin... But they were interested in undermining US national security. All for the chance to control billions of barrels of oil purchased from a flagrant violator of the very international laws they been claiming to hold so dear. I am interested in having men and women in the White House who act with honesty, intelligence and integrity. Actually, I'm more interested in seeing the US have an EFFECTIVE intelligence arm.. One that has the effective human intelligence resources in place so we don't have to squint at satellite footage, or to gist intentions from intercepted voice communications (many of which are deceptive). Because not only Bush, but every leader of the free world had the same general impression of Saddam's capabilities.. All of their intelligence sources told them pretty much the same thing that the CIA told Bush.. Saddam had WMDs, was continuing to research them, and would use or proliferate them if sanctions were lifted. The difference is that those, with whom you seem to share perceptions, chose to deliberately ignore it for 12 years. And it is because of such people, who have ignored those threats for so long, pursuing their own special interests, that military action and loss of life sometimes become necessary. Especially in a region where the world economy depends upon a free-flowing supply of oil. Hawk