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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (131623)	5/5/2004 5:05:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Read Woodward, he did ask, was skeptical, and was reassured by the head of the CIA that the case was solid. The President has to rely on the CIA, just like a salesman has to rely on the mechanic. The President is like the salesman, he's not qualified to look under the hood himself. In hindsight, I don't think nuke scares were that farfetched. Saddam's own program may not have been as far along as was thought, but we didn't know about AQ Khadr's Sam's Club for Nukes back then. Of course Saddam would have gone shopping, and the only thing that prevented him, the sanctions, was collapsing. If the US hadn't invaded, had backed down, who's to say what toys he would have bought? He had the money, right? He still wanted them, right?