On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:31:28 -0500, Gogarty
wrote:

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I have always wondered why the intelligence agencies did not contact foreign
nationals doing business in Iraq. Who knows better what's going on in a
country than those who buy and sell goods and services to that country?

They did. They knew the "yellowcake" story was a fabrication, they
knew the "aluminum tubes" were the wrong size and gauge for refining
nuclear material and they knew the Winnebagos were too small to be a
"mobile weapons lab."

It was ginned up intel proven wrong before any of it was presented.