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How can the Intel from so many sources on WMD all be wrong??
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Posted on 07/30/2004 7:41:12 AM PDT by JBassett

How can the Intel from so many sources on WMD all be wrong?


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: election; iraq; luckysofar; masochist; wmd; zot
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I can somewhat accept one intel source getting the WMD question wrong but several sources wrong? It is very odd that all of our intel, Britian's, France, Germany, and even Russia's Intell all thought Saddam had stock piles of WMDs and even had plans to help groups attack America with them. It sure seems there is a need to investiagte why all of these groups got it wrong. It doesn't make sense.
1 posted on 07/30/2004 7:41:20 AM PDT by JBassett
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To: JBassett

Intentional???


2 posted on 07/30/2004 7:42:16 AM PDT by stuartcr
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To: JBassett

easy answer --- They were NOT wrong!


3 posted on 07/30/2004 7:42:50 AM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: steplock

Ditto.


4 posted on 07/30/2004 7:43:45 AM PDT by tomball
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So you're sure he never had them? Have you ever thought that he (Saddam) just might have transferred them to Syria or Iran before the war started? By the way, go and ask the Kurds if Saddam had any WMD.


5 posted on 07/30/2004 7:43:59 AM PDT by cweese
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To: stuartcr

one word - BLUFF.

It explains EVERYTHING.


6 posted on 07/30/2004 7:44:03 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: JBassett

Two possibilities. One is that they all got it wrong because they depended on the same sources for intelligence. This seems very unlikely to me. The second possibility is that they weren't all entirely wrong, that there were some stockpiles of weapons, and that these were moved out of Iraq.


7 posted on 07/30/2004 7:44:12 AM PDT by zook
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To: JBassett

(Your guys are going to lose. Accept it.)


8 posted on 07/30/2004 7:44:13 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: steplock

Correct!! Don't forget the world's best agency, the Israelis were also convinced and presented credible data. It's just that Israel is so, you know, not cool with the liberals now.


9 posted on 07/30/2004 7:45:31 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Frank_Discussion

I think you nailed it, this is zot bait, just no one bit yet.


10 posted on 07/30/2004 7:45:31 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance ( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
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To: JBassett

General Frank's book comes out next week. I suggest you read it, because he deals with that issue. Apparently he was told by Mubarak of Egypt and Hussein of Jordan that Hussein had WMD's and it was confirmed by the Russians.


11 posted on 07/30/2004 7:45:48 AM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
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Saddam Hussein must have believed them. He took what he had to know was going to be a butt-kickin' rather than show the world that he didn't have them. Why would he do this?
12 posted on 07/30/2004 7:47:21 AM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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A couple of possibilities:

1... He really did have stockpiles - they are now buried and /or sold to Syria/ Arafatso / Iran / Korea / France / Massachusetts / who knows.

2... Saddam's people were making it all up to appease him. They took zillions of dollars and spent it on sand, and told him all kinds of success stories. So when intel talked to these people, they heard the same stories.

13 posted on 07/30/2004 7:48:34 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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All righty...being French myself, I guess I won't be taxed of being an overzealous troll hunter here, but...isn't it a wee bit suspicious you, as a newbie, question the intelligence on which the operations in Iraq were decided ?


14 posted on 07/30/2004 7:48:34 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend
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I don't think they are wrong. I think we're getting our info on a need to know basis and at this point we don't need to know.

Don't be suprised if many of the discredited stories about found WMDs and high profile captures turn out to be true. I think the constant push for info is comming from the democrats and clearly displays their lust for power as more important than national security.


15 posted on 07/30/2004 7:48:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (John kerry is unbalanced)
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To: cweese

Probably sent them to Afghanistan...


16 posted on 07/30/2004 7:49:28 AM PDT by stuartcr
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To: epluribus_2

There was NO BLUFF - He had them, he was ready to use them - he realized what was about to happen and what WOULD happen if he used them - he moved them to Syria while the DEMOCRATS procrastinated on allowing the military to get them.

I would suspect the DNC (democrat party) collusion along with the CPUSA (communist party) and the DSP (democrat socialist party) and islam jihadists in the USA.


17 posted on 07/30/2004 7:49:48 AM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: epluribus_2

But who's bluffing??


18 posted on 07/30/2004 7:49:59 AM PDT by stuartcr
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To: JBassett; 4mycountry; jriemer; MeekOneGOP; TheBigB; Constitution Day; mhking; ctlpdad; timpad; ...
How's this for WMD?

You've just been WMD'd by the VK

19 posted on 07/30/2004 7:49:59 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (I must be the source of Gravity, everything seems to come down on me)
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To: steplock

Steplock is right. These WMDs went elsewhere, that is, Syria, Sudan and some to Libya.


20 posted on 07/30/2004 7:51:10 AM PDT by JeeperFreeper
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