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Yours is the first I've seen that gets close to a PROPER
response to the false "debate" being hyped and inflated.

What does the leaked NIE say about the impact of 9/11 on creating more pissed off Americans?

What does the NIE say about the impact of Gulf War I on
creating a universally understood NEED to remove Saddam?

What does the leaked NIE say about what happens if Iraq becomes a prosperous functional democracy, able to handle its OWN defense, AND able to help us take on terrorists elsewhere?

What does the leaked NIE say about the impact of a free and
democratic Iraq fielding a modern air force with 4th generation capabilities?

What does the NIE say about what happens if, after that time
when Iraq can handle its own security, the U.S. withdraws to
remote desert barracks... in Iraq... maybe near the border with Iran... and sets up a desert warfare training center?

What does the NIE say about the impact of the Popes speech
in helping Europeans with rediscovering that they once had backbones?

And not JUST Pearl Harbor, what did the leaked NIE say about the impact on Japanese resolve of the Americans capturing Okinawa?

Did it MATTER that our success pissed them off?

You bet it did... but it didn't matter ENOUGH.

Finally, what does the leaked NIE say about the outcome of the last WAR we were involved in, in which we DIDN'T make the enemy angry with us by killing them in numbers large enough to "diminish recruiting".. or about the last war in which the presence of American fighting men on the ground,
DIDN'T tend to attract enemies wanting to attack them?

What did the leaked NIE say about how much dope an analyst has to smoke before simple definitions like "we're in a war" don't penetrate the simple brains of "intelligence" analysts, who expect our conduct of war to produce results that look like fun afternoons in amusement parks... instead of producing... warfare... with bad guys, morts and a body count?

Etc.