John H wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:21:56 -0500, thunder
wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:36:08 -0500, NOYB wrote:
John McCain sits on the Commission on the Intelligence
Capabilities of the
United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. I wonder how
much of
the report will make mention of weapons shipped to Syria before
the war?
grin
http://www.wmd.gov/about.html
You are flogging a dead horse. The UN Resolutions required Saddam
to
disarm. *If* Saddam shipped his weapons off to Syria before the
war, he
was disarmed. So, no casus belli.
You seem to be locked into this Syria WMD thing. Syria has WMD. In
fact,
their chemical WMD capability is considered unequaled in the
middle-east.
I have said this before, there is no reason for Syria to accept
Saddam's
second rate WMD. While you and I may not like the fact that Syria
has
WMD, as a sovereign nation, they are completely within their rights
to
have WMD.
Just to refresh your memory:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0021007-8.html
Could 'timing' play a role Mr. Thunder? I can envision this scenario
next, "He
may have had them when the troops boarded the ship, but the WMD were
in Syria
when the troops landed. Therefore, no casus belli!"
--
John H
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. intelligence community was "simply wrong"
in its assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities
before the U.S. invasion, according to a panel created to study those
failures and recommend corrections to prevent them in the future.
"We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost
all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction,"
said a letter from the commission to President Bush. "This was a major
intelligence failure."
The panel -- called the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of
the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction -- formally
presents its report to Bush on Thursday morning.
An October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate warned that Iraq was
pursuing weapons of mass destruction, had reconstituted its nuclear
weapon program and had biological and chemical weapons.
The Bush administration used those conclusions as part of its argument
for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.
But the Iraq Survey Group -- set up to look for weapons of mass
destruction or evidence of them in the country -- issued a final report
saying it saw no weapons or no evidence that Iraq was trying to
reconstitute them.
The commission's report said the principal cause of the intelligence
failures was the intelligence community's "inability to collect good
information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what
information it could gather and a failure to make clear just how much
of its analysis was based on assumptions rather than good evidence."
"The single most prominent a recurring theme" of its recommendations is
"stronger and more centralized management of the intelligence
community, and, in general, the creation of a genuinely integrated
community, instead of a loose confederation of independent agencies."
Bush appointed the nine-member commission led by Laurence Silberman, a
senior federal appellate court judge who also served in the Nixon and
Ford administrations, and former Sen. and Virginia Gov. Chuck Robb, a
Democrat.