On 8/1/06, jdiebremse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, you are saying that in 2002, a major intelligence agency concluded that Iraq had no WMD stockpiles of any kind?
No. You've inverted the statement. The NIE, as well as Tenet in later public statements about that NIE, said that they believed that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological agents, but they were not weaponized. There was no delivery system that they were aware of, just an intention or programs to create them. Makes it kind of hard to argue for an imminent threat, doesn't it? Have you read the declassified parts of the NIE? And Tenet has summarized it several times in public venues. He has been very clear about saying that this was not an intelligence community failure by telling us what the intelligence actually said. He hasn't come right out and said that the administration's public statements were not justified by the intelligence reports, but he doesn't really need to. It is obvious if you compare the two. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
