Since I got a response, I guess I'll chime in again...
Too verbose and wrong? I tend to try not to waste a lot of time
making broad generalized statements, so I'll limit myself to two
points. "Too verbose" is a subjective judgement. There are doubtless
many people out there who would come down on either side of that
issue, so, there is no way that I can fault your opinion. Opinions
being what they are...
I have no idea what to do with the reference to some Wiki-whatever
article. It didn't seem to address the issue that _I_ was speaking
of, which stated, fairly simply, that there were miskakes made with
intel that various 'movers and shakers' had access to at that time.
****** Now, I'm going to quote from an article you can find on the
Cato Institute site:
"https://www.cato.org/research/articles/reynolds-040620.html";
This is merely one article of many that visits the issue of WMDs and
Iraq. I'm more likely to believe something that I got off of Cato,
rather than wiki-whatever:
*****Quote
Ironically, a few writers attempting to defend the White House and
Pentagon also claimed Mr. Tenet should not be blamed. These Iraq war
supporters ended up claiming -- as did war critics -- Mr. Tenet did
nothing wrong.
Michael Barone of U.S News & World Report wrote Mr. Tenet's infamous
"slam dunk" remark "
*****was the conclusion as well of every other competent intelligence
agency in the world.*****
Tenet was right. Given that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had possessed
weapons of mass destruction [mustard and nerve gas before 1991]... and
given that Saddam's regime had not accounted for WMDs he had
[reportedly] possessed, any prudent intelligence agency would have to
have concluded that he still had them.
Moreover, there was no evidence that could have been obtained which
would have convinced a prudent intelligence agency that Saddam did not
possess them."
We cannot prove Unicorns do not exist either. But requiring skeptics
to prove the nonexistence of invisible objects is an imprudent
definition of prudence
*****End Quote
On Sep 4, 4:29 pm, aruzinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 4, 12:16 am, abcdefz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Too vebose and wrong. Don't you remember the "Freedom Fries"
> propaganda campaign? The French wanted to gather more information
> before waging war with Iraq. Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
> .
>
> Not that it matters because, when a group is unanimously wrong, it
> just means that they are in bad company
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