To: Coop
Cheney/Feith/Perle/Wolfowitz et al are government officials.
They claimed that he could be trusted and that his intelligence was better than the flawed CIA intelligence despite reports from career intelligence analysts who said nothing Chalabi provided ever held up to scrutiny.
If Gertz claims thats Chalabi provided yet another document that somehow the entire military defense establishment failed to find, and then Gertz finds an unnamed government official to vouch for the veracity, and that hits your epistemological standard for "good chance its true" then there is this bridge I would like to tell you about...
22 posted on
03/19/2004 7:39:13 AM PST by
JohnGalt
(If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied. -- R. Kipling)
To: JohnGalt
They claimed that he could be trusted and that his intelligence was better than the flawed CIA intelligence I recall no such claim. Please show me one.
Chalabi's intel matched up with other intel (U.S., U.N., allies, Saddam's history, etc.). The CIA indeed had some misgivings in their reports, as they should have. Our leaders weighed all the info, and made the correct choice. That's not even debatable, with or without your routine mocking.
23 posted on
03/19/2004 7:47:47 AM PST by
Coop
("Hero" is the last four-letter word I'd use to describe John Kerry)
To: JohnGalt
Do you have links showing Chalabi's lies? I've asked others, always with no response. Thanks,
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