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To: Ilaine who wrote (120618)	6/17/2005 3:08:12 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793905

and last time I got your opinion, you still think they had WMD but snuck them out of the country. I recognized that as Nadine's opinion, too. I always thought they were finding what they wanted to find in the WMD intelligence and exaggerating the solidity and extent of it to get buy-in just as they let people continue to think that the 9/11 terrorists were Iraqis. Still think that and the Downing Street memo sure doesn't contradict my thinking. I always was more exercised over the way they rationalized and oversold the invasion than over the invasion itself.

To: Ilaine who wrote (120618)	6/17/2005 4:12:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793905

Well, you know my opinion, which is that it's the craziest damndest failure of intelligence I ever saw, and last time I got your opinion, you still think they had WMD but snuck them out of the country. Neither of us believe it was a pretext. We won't know the score until we get a definitive answer on what was trucked into the Bekaa. Certainly we know from multiple sources that Syria is up to its eyeballs in aiding the Iraqi Ba'athists and jihadis, and that Saddam laid the preparations for a terrorist war in the 14th mo warning we gave him.