On 8/3/06, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now, if you listed a primary source that I couldn't find in your post, I'd be very interested in that.
I quoted from the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which is available in many places on the net. I quoted George Tenet's public statements about it. I thought I included URLs, but in case not... GWU has lots of the documents: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB129/index.htm Here is the October NIE with the greatest amount declassified (there have been three declassifications): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB129/nie.pdf Tenet's speech about it, in which he makes very clear the difference between having programs and intensions v. actually having WMDs (as well as ordinary weapons v. WMDs), including the crystal-clear statement, "They never said there was an 'imminent' threat." : http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/dci020504.html I don't see how any reasonable person, after reading these documents, could conclude that war on Iraq was justified by an immediate or imminent threat. But that's what we were told by the consumers of this intelligence. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
