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[Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>]

Agreed -- Clinton did believe it, and supported Bush in that effort.
But I would add the caveat that that was without the *current*
intelligence that Bush's admin had gathered prior to going, much of
which appears to have been discounted because it was not supportive of
the agreed upon narrative that Saddam 'has what he has and we're gonna
get him..'.
You're right though, this is circular.


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:17:09 -0400, Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com> wrote:
> > what he wanted and the reasons given were untrue. A calculated risk?
> 
> Perhaps.  I don't *know* that Bush didn't lie anymore than anyone else here
> *knows* that he did lie.  We could go in circles forever on this.
> 
> Here is an interesting article though on the dangers and difficulties of
> politics and intelligence.  Sounds like Clinton was convinced Sadaam had
> WMD's as well although I'm sure you guys will explain to me that Bush simply
> infiltrated Tenet before Clinton appointed him.  :)
> 
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-01-27-burkee_x.htm
> 
> "When Clinton was here recently," Barroso told a Portuguese news service,
> "he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House
> and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed
> weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime."
> 
> 


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Evan

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