[Calpernia]

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Today, intelligence professionals have little margin for error. He said the threat of the 21st century is terrorist networks or terrorist states pursuing weapons of mass destruction. The consequences of underestimating a threat could mean the deaths of tens of thousands of people, Rumsfeld said.

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[Uncle Miltie]

And there you have it, where the question will rest for many months while the sturm und drang drags on.

[Fenris6]

Half the problem here is that we're dealing with talking air-heads who are too ignorant to understand that there is NEVER such a thing as "perfect" intelligence.

[McGavin999]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sick of the bashing our intelligence community is going through. They are doing the best they can with the limited funds they have received over the years and the way congress has tied their hands.

Intel is an art, not a science (although it contains parts of both) and if they are going to err I would prefer it be on the side of caution. Saddam was a threat to his people and a threat to the US. I would not change a thing. Besides, I STILL believe we will find the WMDs.

[OXENinFLA]

Remarks as delivered by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Senate Armed Services Committee, Wednesday, February 4, 2004. NOT his prepared statement.

FY 2005 Defense Budget Testimony (as prepared)