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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (281778)	3/25/2006 4:42:55 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

tejek, I'm no spook, but I'll tell you this much: if I was a secret intelligence agent and I was doing something that could get my tyrant boss in trouble and could result in my death if it was linked back to me or my boss, you can be damn sure I wouldn't put the official seal of Saddam on it. Intelligence is a shady business and anything found is likely to look so shady that no one will believe it is true. It's all about reasonable doubt and plausible deniability. If you are looking for the smoking gun, you'll never find it. The real way to sniff out this type of thing is to see that the circumstantial evidence is so overwhelming that you can't help but connect the dots. If you and I were talking to an omniscient being and we had the opportunity to make a bet and he'd give us the answer, I'd bet everything I own on two things: 1) Saddam's intelligence apparatus had contact with Al Qaeda trying to establish a partnership and 2) Syria is hiding some of Saddam's WMD, most likely chemical and biological weapons. I'd win too and you'd be one poor dude after that bet.