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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159992)	4/1/2005 1:06:03 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

...and universally concluded that Saddam was hiding stocks of WMDs. That was simply accepted. Again, unless you think Ken Pollack was lying through his teeth about the state of intelligence concerning Saddam in the 1990s, his books lays out the unclassified material. It was universally concluded that Saddam might have WMD. There was also intelligence that indicated that Saddam didn't have WMD. Was Pollack lying...I doubt lying is the right word, but he was wrong if he concluded that Saddam had the WMD. I read the unclassified material on the CIA website before the war. The material available never said Saddam has WMD. It always said he "may" have... or possibly has... It was always qualified like that in those reports available to the public. I read them myself. The oil vouchers were the bribes? Ok then explain how the program was supposed to work and how the vouchers amounted to bribes. Orca

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159992)	4/1/2005 9:52:49 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The reasons for inspections was that we did not know, the Europeans did not know -- inspections were the best way to find out. The UN inspectors had been out of Iraq for some time -- having them back in provided very valuable intel that had been missing for years. The Europeans did not want to go to war in an environment where there seemed like a very good possibility that Iraq noi longer possessed anything of significance, and nothing that would cause concern as a threat. They were right. We played the cowboy and rode into town with guns blazing -- and we were dead wrong.