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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (17721)	9/27/2004 1:39:50 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Some communication may have occurred. But that does not mean that cooperation also ensued. In fact the after action assessments of the Sudanese operation revealed that there was no WMD capability...that in fact it was an aspirin factory. There's a lesson to be learned from that don't you think? Actionable intelligence is relative. Granted it could be a grave error to do nothing in certain cases. But given the intelligence failures under Clinton and Bush it's clear that the most important thing we need to do is to re-invigorate our intelligence forces. That was the key recommendation of the 9-11 commission. But even when you think that you have "actionable intelligence" you need to weigh the risk reward of any action. Clearly the reward of removing Saddam in a pre-emptive manner, cutting short the weapons inspectors work, failing to gather a broad coalition, accepting a high number of collateral deaths have all contributed to a failed policy. A policy that catered more to the predispostion of the administration hawks who were the top board members of the Project for a New America, who's ideology was a prime motivator for the war in Iraq...before 9-11. In the final analysis, the war in Iraq was not part of the war on terror. And it has not moved forward the war on Al Qaeda, nor has it moved forward the battle for the hearts and minds of the Islamic world. We have taken a giant step sideways and another giant step backwards. Orca