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To: Neocon who wrote (156008)	1/12/2005 10:36:36 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<They all thought there were stockpiles.> You see, this is where it gets "interesting", when you make this sort of unsubstantiated global claim. For example, name one country outside the US that thought Iraq had an active nuclear program. The threat assessment of other countries claimed by you and by Bush supporters is used as a pretext for the US invasion, and yet there was no THREAT ASSESSMENT attached to these empty claims. That is the issue here. Would twenty year old mustard gas canisters pose a threat to the US? That neither Bush nor Rice bothered to read the most authoritative threat assessment from the intelligence community -- the NIE -- is stunning. The rest of the world saw no substantiated threat -- and indeed there was none. If we had gone to the UN and said "we have no hard evidence of a threat, but we really don't like this guy and want to get rid of him and see if we can make something positive happen over there" it would have been hard to rally much support for war. So instead we made up stories about WMDs that were little more than figments of our imagination and passed it off as the best available intelligence. Other countries wanted something more on which to base war -- yet you use their assessment as evidence to justify war -- quite ironic.