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To: epicure who wrote (214838)	1/25/2007 5:36:42 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think that he took it on faith from Cheney -- he did not ask the tough questions, although there are times when he did and he got absurd answers and left it at that. The exchange with Tenet is a good example, when Bush said to him (paraphrasing) 'we better have something better than that to go on' and Tenet made some stupid remark about it being a slam dunk. If you are the President of the United States you don't leave it at that if you are going to war. If you are the President of the United States you do not go to war without reading the National Security Estimate. If you do go to war without asking the questions or reading the intel then you should expect to be publicly reviled if the war turns out to be based on a hoax, and if the hoax allowed you to railroad the American people into a tragic mistake. Either way, lying or incompetent, he now owns the big lie.