[FBD]

PING :
"It has been noted that the French and Russians did not want this war because they knew we would learn how they cheated on U.N. sanctions against Iraq. But the treasure trove of information we will collect on the Arab world and other Islamic states will be much more important. It will enable us to see into previously opaque issues and to squeeze many a corrupt leader who believed he was safe from external scrutiny.

The Iraqi archives will be a mother lode of information for scholars. But there is much we will choose to keep under lock and key for strategic purposes. The psychological effects of our access to those archives and to former regime officials anxious to tell all will be even greater than the practical information we accumulate.

No Arab leader will know what was or wasn't in those files. Each will have to fear the worst. President-for-life X will always have to wonder what we know as we sit across the negotiating table. "

[Landru]

""It has been noted that the French and Russians did not want this war because they knew we would learn how they cheated on U.N. sanctions against Iraq."

HA!!
Are we suppose to believe these two scoundrels were working in some kind of *secrecy*?
Really hard for me to accept our CIA or NSA "didn't know," anything concerning the goings-on about anyone, anywhere, FBD.

Our guys are very good; even, in spite of what the traitorous bastard '92-thru-Y2k did to 'em.

Means one thing, to me.
Just what're they up to.

...by working the "didn't know" angle?