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To: Neocon who wrote (156021)	1/12/2005 11:32:45 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<a shock to all Western intelligence services that we found no stockpile> Again -- stockpiles of what? It is a matter of threat assessment -- a stockpile of hydrogen bombs is not the same as a stockpile of 20 year old mustard gas shells. If we had found any mustard gas then you would have Bush et al making front page news saying "see, see, we told you so". They must have been shocked to fail to find anything at all to trumpet -- this was a surprise indeed because now there was NOTHING to draw on to pretend there was a threat. So instead of WMDs, and instead of WMD programs we have the "but everybody thought there would be" excuse. Everybody thought what? Did everybody think there was a threat? Or did everybody think that the US would find something, at least a few old rusting artillery shells. The US had no business invading a country based on suspected "stockpiles" of anything -- there must be more than an imaginary threat, and on that score the US did not have support.