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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (131085)	5/3/2004 1:17:41 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

But back to wmd. This is exactly the stupidity of invading Iraq on the basis of wmd. Since everyone with a brain knew the wmd didn't actually exist. Basing the attack on wmd is why the US is in the hole it is in. Hello!!! If we're going to apologize for not finding any WMDs and the attack on Iraq was completely unjustified, then LOGIC DICTATES that you believe that Iraq was better off under Saddam's regime and that we owe him apology. If we were wrong, and Saddam was in compliance with all of those UNSC resolutions, doesn't it stand that we should restore him to power and pay him a nice compensation package for the "inconvenience" we've inflicted upon him?? Come on... NO WMDs... Saddam would still be in power.. Thus, you seem to insinuate implicitly that somehow we "wronged" Saddam's regime. And you really have to get off the bit about Hans Blix. When the invasion started Hans Blix called the US defense department "those bastards" for distorting his position. While in November he was telling US congressmen that it appeared Saddam probably did have WMDs.. Now he's playing the blame game and trying to state that DOD lied to him.. When in reality EVERY CREDIBLE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY could not refute the belief that Saddam still had unaccounted for WMD inventories. Is there any blame to be assigned to Saddam here? He deliberately deceived the UNSCOM and UNMOVIC inspectors. We discovered he WAS STILL ENGAGED IN WMD R&D (strictly prohibited).. David Kay said so.. So maybe we haven't found WMD stockpiles. But we STILL HAVE NOT ACCOUNTED FOR THEIR DISPOSITION.. No one seems to know what happened to them.. Today, Joseph P. Wilson on Meet The Press said that C. Rice LIED when she said she didn't know that Wilson had uncovered the forgery of the Niger story. Well, I haven't seen MI6 change their tune yet. In fact, they claim they received their intelligence on Niger from the French, who refuse to permit that intelligence from being shared with the CIA. Has Wilson seen this intelligence?: thescotsman.scotsman.com France is expected to be blamed for the split between the CIA and MI6 - on the grounds that Paris intelligence agencies shared hard evidence with Britain, but refused to show it to the US. As Britain is forbidden from passing on this intelligence, it will be argued, the UK can be sure about the Niger connection - even though the CIA says there is not enough evidence to substantiate the claim. portal.telegraph.co.uk US intelligence sources believe that the most likely source of the MI6 intelligence was the French secret service, the DGSE. Niger is a former French colony and its uranium mines are run by a French company that comes under the control of the French Atomic Energy Commission. A further factor in the refusal to hand over the information might have been concern that the US administration's willingness to publicise intelligence might lead to sources being inadvertently disclosed. US sources also point out that the French government was vehemently opposed to the war with Iraq and so suggest that it would have been instinctively against the idea of passing on the intelligence. So Sarmad.. The British are NOT backing down on that Niger connection. And if the information came from the French, and Chirac refused to permit it to be shared with the CIA, then isn't just further proof of Chirac's attempt to protect Saddam's regime, and subvert the authority of the UNSC?? Come on boy... Where's there's smoke, there's normally fire.. We are seeing all kinds of evidence being compiled about France's complicity in repressing evidence about Saddam's WMD efforts. But all the pieces will eventually fall into place, IMO.. Hawk