Actually, spending on Intelligence, especially the CIA, has been declining as a portion of the Federal budget since the mid-1970s. This was primarily related to excesses of the intelligence agencies, which involved assassination plots, the engineering of foreign elections, and the Iran Contra debacle. At the risk of agreeing with Stuntman to a limited degree, I am of the opinion that the Federal intelligence agencies have been woefully under funded and too much emphasis has been placed on electronic intelligence rather than human intelligence operations (Spies). The excesses of the 1970s and 1980s should have resulted in increased supervision instead of severe budget cuts.
I will be very surprised, if recently manufactured WMDs are found. On the other hand, perhaps they will suddenly be discovered in late September or early October.
Regarding the movement of Iraqi secret police and the possible transportation of WMDs to Syria, I would question the a military operation that allowed that to occur. I also doubt that the Israeli government under Sharon would allow Syria to possess WMDs even briefly.
Keith
Stuntman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stuntman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
W,
During the klinton administration our Inteligence system was gutted by
approx 80% cuts while UN support went up 8x.
We were forced to rely on the intel systems of others.
Tell me is Tenent still running the CIA?
Was FOX the only media that ran Bush's speech where he admitted
mistakes were made? No, because I remember seeing it on NBC too.
So now that the 9/11 Commission made its recomendations Bush has
already been making changes.
Keep in mind those WMD's may still show up.
So far it has only been a few shells, missle delivery systems for Nerve
gas (which were in a shed built not more than 5 years ago), several
tons of "Yellow Cake" Uranium, nuke research components buried in
scientists back yards, mobile labs, and military munitions/hardware
dated post sanction time. The last part kind of shows why France and
Russia di! d not support Sadamneds forced compliance.
Why are Syrian troops guarding empty desert in the middle of no-where?
WHY?
Could it have something to do with the recent news that reports had
surfaced showing Sadamneds secret police took over border patrols
several nights before we came in?
Stuntman
>
> In a message dated 8/29/04 3:57:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> BTW Kerry also voted for enforcement.
>
> And so did most others congress. I also voted for enforcement, based
on the
> credible information supplied by the very best intelligence agency in
the
> world... or so I thought.
>
> You can imagine just how fooled I felt when my own government wasn't
doing
> its job and provided information to its people from an ordinary wiji-
board.
>
> Tony Blair, apologized to his people for the error. That made a
leader in my
> eyes. Can we say the same for our government as it stands. Just who
can
> anyone trust these days if those who are paid aren't doing their jobs
and
> accepting substandard informations?
> W
>
>
>
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