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To: Neocon who wrote (155385)	1/6/2005 12:08:40 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Very nice. Unfortunately most of the US people you quote from 2002 were getting tainted evidence from the pressured US intel services- and many of them have said that had they known then, what came to light after (namely who the intel was being gotten from- dissident Iraqis, and such) and had they known about the pressure on intel agencies, they would not have said what they said. The French, despite Chirac's words, were not about to go to war over the possibility of WMD's. In retrospect, that was a good call, wasn't it? The record is the record, and the president and his administration and his poor pressured intelligence agencies were totally wrong, it's hard to get around that. And while you can quote all the people you want to who believed that bad intel, there was other intelligence out there, that did not agree- but that was discarded by this administration. Apparently you hope to just finesse that point by quoting huge numbers of people who made the same mistake. Unfortunately that does not really address the mistake itself, nor does it exonerate the makers of the mistake- who could have done better, and who should have done better, because so much was at stake.