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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (26881)	1/17/2005 6:56:26 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

The intelligence reports were not of the type that included hard evidence. They were only assessments. Do you know the difference? With an assessment, assumptions are drawn based on several sources of anecdotal information. They are tempered with words like probably, or may. These types of reports must be taken seriously for what they are...assessments. In that vein Clinton was responding properly by keeping the sanctions, the no flies, and the rhetoric regarding the stance of the US with regard to Saddam's persual of WMD. Bush overreacted to the assessment, pushed by an administration full of hawks who were already predisposed to attacking Iraq...even Bush leaned in that direction early on as evidenced by statements by Clarke and O'Neil. 9-11 was used as an excuse to do something that was in the plan book from day one of this administration. Orca