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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (41676)	8/9/2004 9:00:51 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

The imminent threat idea came from rumblings of AlQuaida SH interactions. Where did you get that. I have not heard that anywhere before. Besides, the International inspectors who were on the ground said that they had not found any evidence. Mr. Kay, an American investigator on the team also said so. Ultimately, he defied Bush and resigned from the team seek WMDs after the US went in. So what crap was the WMD obsession all about by the Bushies. They wanted to act unilaterally and now they are trying to wiggle out. What does Bush know anyway what was going on around him. The strained relations between the State Department and Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld said it all. That itself is proof that not everything is well in the Bush Administration and there is a big split in there.

To: Wayners who wrote (41676)	8/9/2004 10:43:27 AM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 81568

The problem was not with the intelligence, but how it was used. To the chagrin of the intelligence community, the administration cherry picked information to bolster it's belief that Saddam had WMD while ignoring evidence to the contrary or questions about the reliability of sources. The mobile bio labs is a case in point. The 'defector' who described them was an alcoholic relative of a member of the Chalabi's IRC (Iraqi National Congress) staff. The UN inspectors repeatedly asked for US intelligence information that would lead to the WMD that the administration claimed that Iraq possessed. Nothing of any value was ever provided. Now we know why. There wasn't any.