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To: Neocon who wrote (147748)	10/13/2004 3:37:07 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I considered the consensus position on Saddam's capabilities (that is, the position shared by even French and German intelligence) sufficient to justify our position Foreign intelligence services largely relied on intelligence spoon fed by this administration. It was US experts, not French and German, for example, that investigated the aluminum tubes used as the smoking gun to justify war. Powell used photo's from US satellites as an aid to justify his opinion. Blair signed up to the war based on faulty information provided; he's admitted the information provided was faulty. France and Germany no doubt are in the same position, only they didn't find it so compelling as to commit their troops to the war. That's the real issue hidden in your statement... A more far reaching complication of this massive intelligence failure (if you believe that to be the case as opposed to spoon feeding cherry picked conclusions to the world) and resulting war is that foreign intelligence services - who must work day to day with US services - can no longer trust facts and conclusions promoted by the CIA/DIA/etc.