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Politics : Baghdad Bush Should Be Court Martialed -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (73)	4/10/2004 12:29:02 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 211

Thanks for that. In this case, it would appear the administration selected one of two views. What I've been finding is certainly pointing to, at the least, a predisposition to attack Iraq. The administration based its view on a Central Intelligence Agency finding that Iraq had renewed development of sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles - UAVs - capable of such attacks. The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency also supported this conclusion. While the hunt for suspected weapons of mass destruction - and the means to deliver them - continues, intelligence and defense officials said the CIA and DIA stand by their prewar assertions about Iraqi drone capabilities, some of which Powell highlighted in his Feb. 5 presentation to the U.N. Security Council. But the Air Force, which controls most of the American military's UAV fleet, didn't agree with that assessment from the beginning. And analysts at the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said the Air Force view was widely accepted within their ranks as well.