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Re: Oct. Report Said Defeated Hussein Would Be Threat
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Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:19:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
> declassified portions of a still-secret National Intelligence Estimate
> (NIE) released Friday by the White House show that at the time of the
> president's speech the U.S. intelligence community judged that possibility to
> be unlikely. In fact, the NIE, which began circulating Oct. 2, shows the
> intelligence services were much more worried that Hussein might give weapons
> to al Qaeda terrorists if he were facing death or capture and his government
> was collapsing after a military attack by the United States.
NPR had a report on that very issue way back November or so, but the Liberal
Media Conspiracy kept it out of the headlines since then...
Pardon my cynicism, but here's how I think it'll happen, if it happens:
If a chem/bio attack occurs, Saddam will be implicated either correctly or
not, and Bush will say "I was right to order the invasion; look at what a
villain he really is!"
Of course, Bush will never say "Saddam supplied the weapons only because I
ordered the invasion" or "Saddam supplied the weapons that my Dad supplied to
him," but who's counting?
And there's still plenty of time for the US to plant a stash of chem/bio
weapons somewhere in Iraq and say "See? Here they are!"
Dave!
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| Oct. Report Said Defeated Hussein Would Be Threat (URL) Last fall, the administration repeatedly warned in public of the danger that an unprovoked Iraqi President Saddam Hussein might give chemical or biological weapons to terrorists. "Iraq could (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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