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To: Solson
There is plenty of evidence to support the fact there were stockpiles of WMD at one time. There is little evidence to support those stockpiles existed within the last year.

The snippets of supporting intel I highlighted for you (and keep in mind there's much more) all go back no farther than 18 months.

during the inspections that began in late 2002.

I will take Dr. Kay's word over yours, no offense.

217 posted on 01/29/2004 9:04:06 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Coop
Coop...you shown nothing from Kay's reports about the stockpiles talked about and referenced by Powell at the UN in your quotes.

But let's use Kay's own words...

"In the course of doing that, I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance."

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

Why is it so hard to understand that the pre-War intelligence specifically regarding stockpiles was wrong? Thus, in that instance, this was an Intelligence failure. Kay said that yesterday - in no uncertain terms!

In the recent months we have further examples of intelligence failures - the degree of Libya's Nuke program, the degree of Iran's nuke program - are two examples.

235 posted on 01/29/2004 9:25:27 AM PST by Solson (Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Von Goethe)
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To: Coop
I will take Dr. Kay's word over yours, no offense

Then why dont you accept Kay when he says there probably are no WMD in Iraq now and that there probably were none there in recent years? Duh, you seem a little inconsistent to me?

295 posted on 01/29/2004 1:00:16 PM PST by Dave S
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