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2004-02-02 Home Front

Bush to establish panel to examine US intel on Iraq

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-02-02 12:14:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think this is good. As long as it doesn't turn into some witch-hunt. It's obvious there are still lapses in our intelligence capabilities. Mainly thanks to Slick Willy gutting them, but lapses none the less.

Posted by Swiggles 2004-2-2 8:36:03 AM|| 2004-2-2 8:36:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 According to Howling Howard Dean, VP Cheney forced Intel analyst to say there were WMDs so we could go to war. Now I am not saying he is a kook, but Cheney would have had to force people in several other countries as well and political appointees in the last administration to make this work. This can do nothing EXCEPT turn into a witch hunt. We have seen on the Intel committee how 'cooperative' the Dems want to be. Bush needs to clean house at the CIA/NSA/DIA/FBI of all the ex-Clinton politicos. Then appoint career Intel types and not someone who made a good campaigner. Then he should start all Intel estimates with a clean slate and then build from there.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-2-2 11:21:21 AM|| 2004-2-2 11:21:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 If I suddenly stop posting, you'll know I went a bit too far. Somebody's got to say it, though. There was ample evidence available to the international intelligence community, and to the US intelligence community specifically, that Saddam Hussein was engaged in building, stockpiling, and preparing for use unconventional weapons, including chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. This was evident from imagery and other related intelligence information I saw in the 1980's, and from open-source material I've seen since then, including commercial SPOT imagery taken in the mid-1990's that a friend sent me via email. The problem isn't that he had them, or that he was building them, or developing them. The problem is, they haven't been found. A lot of that crud could have been destroyed in a very short time. It also could have been shipped to Syria, and many speculate. Sooner or later, however, we're going to find that missing piece, and when we do the entire house of cards of "faulty intelligence" and "Bush pushed us into war" is going to fall apart. The Democrats will simply switch to another attack frequency, but the rest of us need to pay attention, and hold these idiots that want to destroy this nation accountable for their actions.

I'm beginning to believe the Democratic Party is as corrupt as the Saudi Royal Family, and equally aimed at our destruction - Saudis from without, the Democrats from within. Both need a good case of lead poisoning.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-2 11:35:46 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-2 11:35:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Mike posted the a Krauthammer views of Rolf Ekeus a while back concerning Sadaam's stock piles. I trust Rolf a whole lot farther than I trust Hans Blix. Rolf seemed to think that Iraqi VX was too unstable to store and that eventually the nuclear program would have had to have been resurrected to deter, Iraq's local rival Iran.

Had Sadaam been more rationale he should have gotten the inspectors in quickly, achieved a clean bill of health, got the sanctions lifted and then resumed full scale unmonitored production of WMD. Luckily for us, rationality was never Sadaam's strongest charecter trait.

I still wonder the liquid in the mortar shells was VX that had degraded to the point where it tested negative as a nerve agent. As for the mobile labs or weather balloon inflation trucks, I don't know of many armies that would use these unless they are planning to shoot a chemical mortar round.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-2 12:02:25 PM|| 2004-2-2 12:02:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 David Warren offers an interesting analysis.

Posted by someone 2004-2-2 1:36:42 PM|| 2004-2-2 1:36:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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