At 12:18 AM 7/30/2003 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>> Actually, Bush *did* do that, and Britain said that they completely stand
>> by their intelligence with the highest degree of confidence.
>
>Which British? The worker bees, or top management.
So, your position is that if you had been running the Bush Administration
in this situation, you would have gone over Tony Blair's head and directly
to the underlings?
Uh, its a nice thought, but it strikes me as impractical.
>But, it definately appears that their assessment of the WMD was wrong. It
>is hard to imagine hundreds of tons of deliverables, 45 minutes away from
>delivery that were quickly hidden or taken into Syria without us being able
>to trace them.
Which is information that was not available to Bush at the time.
>My suggestion for the proper action for Bush
>seems clear to me.
Is that suggestiong to admit any information for which there is uncertainty?
>If there is
>uncertainty, then the statement doesn't belong in the State of the Union
>message.
JDG
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