[CLUE-Talk] a new note in the usa/iraq tune

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Monday 26 January 2004 03:05 pm, Jed S. Baer wrote:



> And you know what? Intelligence is a tremendously difficult business. It
> would be a difficult business, even if the U.S Justice Department hadn't
> been stepping all over its own toes under Janet Reno. (Yes that was a
> factor, I can't find the article I'd point to though.) The point is that
> there's a significant difference between reaching a conclusion based on
> available data, and deliberately misleading people. I don't believe Bush
> is mendacious. And, as Randy, I, and others keep pointing out, WMD wasn't
> the only reason for invading Iraq.
>
> So why is this suddenly Bush's lie?
>
> jed

You (and many others) are assuming that GWB is telling the truth about the 
lack of Intel. Please note that a republican lead investigation into 9/11 
determined that there was more than enough intel to do something. Think about 
Y2K, when SS, FBI, CIA, and NSA were crawling all over Seattle? 
Do you think that there was a reason for it or do you think that it was a 
simple exercise to have more than 200 extra agents flown in? 
Are you suggesting that the Intel available to Clinton was superior to that 
available to GWB?

BTW, this does not mean that Intel gathering is easy. Far from it. But I do 
not think that enough credit is being given to those who do this work (and in 
some cases give their lives ).

Do not get me wrong. I know that there are "WMD" or good building potential in 
Iraq. But it was not a good reason to go after Iraq. Every other single 
country has the same capability of building Biological or Chemical weapons.
What Iraq (and most countries) lack is a way to deliver these weapons. In 
fact, only a handful of nations have the capability to deliver beyond about 
1000 Miles:
USA, Britain, France, Russia, India, China, Brazil, Japan and North Korea.



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cheers
g.r.r.
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