From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 09:41:05 -0400, Geo.  wrote:

> That's a really simple answer, it's because other countries have their
> own intelligence sources and they were not seeing any convincing
> evidence of WMD.
> But that's understandable, their leaders have an advantage over bush,
> they understand thought and logic and proof as opposed to being
> religious nutters from a dildoless state..
> Geo.

I just finished reading Seymour Hersh's "The Target Is
Destroyed", about the USSR shootdown of KAL Flight 007 in 1983.  The
book was published in 1986; here's a paragraph I found interesting, from
the closing chapters:

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American rhetoric did not lead to the loss of innocent lives, and the poor
performance of the American intelligence community and the White House
cannot diminish the international significance of the Soviet mistake over
Sakhalin.  Nontheless, there is much for Americans to learn from the
incident and its aftermath.  The exaggerations and distortions of what was
known about the destruction of Flight 007 demonstrate that there is no
intelligence agency in the United States government that can be counted on
to challenge the views of the president and his senior advisors.  A tragic
and brutal Soviet mistake-- never acknowledged by Moscow-- was escalated
into a tinderbox issue on the basis of misunderstood and distorted
intelligence, while the NSA, which knew better, chose not to tell others in
the government what they didn't want to hear.
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Steve 
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