seattle.politics

Lobby Dosser < @ > wrote:

> usenet@ (Paul Mitchum) wrote:
> > Don Homuth < > wrote:
> >> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:53:02 GMT, Lobby Dosser
> >> < @ > wrote:
> >> >Don Homuth < > wrote:
> >> >> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:23:57 -0500, Al
> >> >> < @ > wrote:
> >> >>> In article < %usenet@ >,
> >> >>> usenet@ (Paul Mitchum) wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> In this case, however, the decision had been made long before
> >> >>>> there was any intel either way.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> In fact, there was quite a bit of intel "either way" prior to
> >> >>> Bush's arrival.
> >> >>
> >> >> There was not, however, Current intel during the runup to the war.
> >> >> At that time, we had No Actual Evidence of the presence of WMDs in
> >> >> Iraq.
> >> >
> >> > So what? Intelligence is Rarely "Actual Evidence".
> >>
> >> Then we go to war on guesswork and surmise? [..]
> >
> > Yes, of course. War policy comes before intel. The policy comes first,
> > and the intel comes later. That's why the Bush administration created
> > the 'stovepipe' system to channel intel to the wrong places. Remember
> > that Seymour Hersh article?
> > < /cgi-bin/artman/exec/ /15/2380>
>
> PROVE it.

READ it.

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