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[Jim Allman <jim AT ibang.com>]

On Jul 30, 2004, at 2:49 PM, Tony Spencer wrote:
> > As I understand it, our intelligence services (and those of
> > several other nations) chased a collective phantom here, and
>
> The 9/11 Commission report states that MI6 and Russian intelligence 
> agreed
> there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
>
> So now we know Bush cast his spell on :
> * All of Congress
> * MI6
> * Russian intelligence
> * U.N.
> as well as the Clinton administration in the late 90's.

*ptui!*

Um, no. I said (and meant) that they were simply *wrong*. I don't 
happen to believe that Bush whipped up a story about Saddam's weapons. 
In fact, it's rather obvious that Saddam did that himself, by 
interfering with inspections and generally sending mixed signals. 
Apparently he thought this would enhance his stature in the region, or 
somesuch, and none of the spooks was able to grok his crazy-like-a-fox 
strategy, so here we are.

  =jimA=

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