--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/4/06, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is in the first Key Judgment on page 5 of the report > > > > "We judge that... Baghdad has > > chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges > > in excess of UN restrictions.... > > > Where it says "weapons," if it mean "weapons of mass destruction," > it would have said so. Maybe you think this is nitpicking... but > this is an intelligence brief for the president and security > council, they are very, very precise in what > they say. If they weren't, then how would the consumers of the > report know when they are talking about ordinary weapons, which > Iraq certainly had, and WMDs?
Call me crazy Nick, but I'm going to take a wild guess that the words "chemical" and "biological" probably tipped the readers off that the NIE wasn't referring to "ordinary weapons".... JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
