At 09:51 AM 2/16/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>So we were wrong. We were wrong in Libya too, but in
>the exact opposite direction. We had _no idea_ that
>their WMD program was advanced as it was.
And in Iran.
And in the DPRK.
And in Pakistan.
And in India.
And in Iraq in 1991.
Shall I go on?
The moral of the story is that given the track record of US Intelligence, a
President would have to be criminally incompetent to rely solely upon those
things that US Intelligence believed "for certain."
Indeed, there is a very strong track record above which indicates that US
Intelligence has tended to under-estimate other countries' WMD capabilities
virtually *every* time.
JDG
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