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To: sylvester80 who wrote (184800)	4/8/2006 3:16:15 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Since America is so technologically superior to Iraq how come and you can't account of the $14 billion that disappeared there? Sly... Technology is not the "end all, be all".. Just look at how much WE DIDN'T KNOW about Iraq because we were too dependent upon Technical means of intelligence gathering. Our Human Intelligence was, and still is, pretty much crippled and desperately in need of restructuring. Few governments aware of the capabilities of US electronic surveillance capabilities would discuss critical matters of state via phone. Instead, we must have human spies, and often deal with some very despicable individuals (many with agendas of their own that might compromise the value of the intelligence they offer) in order to collect information on the true intent of a government's policies and strategies. And speaking of money... What about the Billions of Dollars that Saddam left on the table as a result of wishing to fully cooperate with the UNSC resolutions?? 10's of Billions of dollars of lost wealth because he felt it was more important to avoid complying with full disarmament of his WMD programs (or maintaining ambiguity of his capabilities) than it was to feed his people and generate revenue from Iraq's national resources. But, of course, you're not interested in this perspective. You're too busy playing psuedo-intellectual tiddly-winks in order to advance you partisan political interests. The truth means nothing to you.. unless it justifies your hatred of Bush, or to permit you to, once again, remind us all of how Fascist Americans are... Hawk