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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (149103)	10/26/2004 9:47:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Were they surprised or even embarrassed? I don't know... but lets say they were, to some degree. Does it matter? No. What matters is always the question to be asked. And for the Bush administration, what mattered most was discrediting anything that did not support their drive to go to war I get it. The political motives of anyone on your side of the argument are entirely besides the point, but the political motives of anyone on the other side of the argument ought to be all-consuming. Nice try. If the Bush administrations motives matter, so do the UN's motives, of which they had plenty (not to mention the amount they were grafting from Saddam). The aluminum tubes were a side issue; the central arugment was WMDs, and find one reputable person (Scott Ritter not included) who thought Saddam Hussein had no WMDs.