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

To: i-node who wrote (559471)	4/7/2010 7:08:01 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577902

"Of course we know. They were very specific about the instances in which EIT were used. " There were many cases where nothing was known for years. Where people just vanished. "If you had I suspect you would have cited it." Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It has been demonstrated that there was credible intelligence that wasn't the case at the time. The evidence of them was heavily qualified and notable as guesses, but they were pretty confident statements in the face of uncertainty. In fact, we were told there was no doubt, and the records released indicates there was considerable doubt. There was a close relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq before the war. There wasn't. That al Qaeda and Iraqi officials met in Prague. The CIA had totally dismissed that one by the time the claim was made. That Iraq was building facilities for chemical and biological weapons. We never found them. Despite supposedly knowing exactly where they were. That Iran was developing nuclear weapons despite the report from the CIA that all activity had ceased several years before. That no one could have predicted the levees breaching in Katrina. Need I go into detail? That were credible scenarios for that class of hurricanes doing that for decades. That the Iraq war would cost only a few billion. Direct costs are now over $700 billion. And that doesn't count things like the new equipment that had to be developed, the equipment that was worn out and used up during the war and the medical liabilities for wounded vets. It certainly will go over $1 trillion and likely more. All of these statements were made at a time when there was a considerable body of evidence they weren't true and not much that they were. So this isn't hindsight, it was using the best available evidence at the time.