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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (18122)	5/9/2006 7:23:09 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542103

Since it would be in Bush's interest to find documents that would support at least part of his preinvasion claims one possible scenario is that these documents are not seen as the legitimate reports you think they are. The presence of documents in and of themselves does not guarantee the legitimacy of the documents- nor does it guarantee the legitimacy of what they appear to express. It's easy to claim to have seen something, or have a friend who has seen something, but there is no reason this administration would be covering up data that was exculpatory for them, therefore the rational conclusion is that the data is probably not very good, or has more than one possible construction. If one were interested in the truth one would have to consider that often, I would think- especially when dealing with documents internal to the Iraqi regime.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (18122)	5/9/2006 8:53:49 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542103

You kind off answered the questions you pose in your post with this statement: You'll have to ask the Bush administration and the intelligence agencies why they aren't releasing the other information. My questions: What other information that you think they have and how do you know it if it is not public information. Besides, after the claim by the Administration that they had very credible information about WMDs and then we find out that its credibility is as good or as bad that we individually make it out to be, it should not be difficult to surmise why it is hard for people to believe anything that the Administration says.