From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
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> "Mark"  wrote:
>
>>The intelligence (both ours and others) said there WMD, both
>>before and after Bush was elected.
>
> No, "the intelligence" said a wide range of conflicting things, as it
> always does. Bush & co. here, Blair & co. in the UK, cherry-picked
> that segment of the intelligence that suited their purposes... and
> proved to be wrong.
>
> You keep saying "Well, other countries' intelligence told them the
> same thing, so don't blame Bush." I seem to recall episodes at the UN
> in the winter of 2003 which showed pretty clearly that other countries
> weren't as certain as Bush was....
>
>
>

And if I recall correctly the Administration demanded and received  access
to the raw data , No filtering, no weeding out of the incorrect
information. Hmmm wonder which they used .............

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