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To: jlallen who wrote (155734)	1/9/2005 5:13:05 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<comply.....> To comply he had to produce records -- if he did not have sufficient records then he would indeed never comply. If, however, we were able to determine the extent to which the underlying compliance issue was records or something else, then we would have a better decision on military options. But we did not do that. We acted on the assumption that it was not an issue concerning records. And we assumed the place was knee deep in WMD -- when in fact there were none at all. In the mean time we are sucked into Iraq with a war that is widely understood to be illegal under the UN Charter, and a war that held out little for us to gain and so very much to lose. This is what is know as placing a suckers bet, and we were gigantic suckers to put our chips on a quick and easy invasion of Iraq and a miraculous "transformation" of the Middle East.