From: Gene McAloon 

It is interesting that for some time it was claimed by just about everyone,
including leaks from the administration, that both the CIA and the State
Dept. expressed strong doubts about the intelligence coming from Chalabi
concerning WMD and only the DoD favored it.

Then Woodward claimed in his book that Tenet assured Bush that Iraq had WMD
and ever since what had been said previously has been ignored and Tenet has
been given the blame.  Seems to me that there seems to be a preference to
believe Woodward almost no matter what he says. I find that not a little
odd.


On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:37:19 -0400, "Steve Ewing"
 wrote:

>This is Eric Alterman's take on it:
>
>=====
>The question regarding Tenet is, which fall is he taking? Is it the
>
>a)  “I screwed up on 9/11” fall?
>
>b)  "I made up that stuff about WMD” fall?
>
>c)  “I also made up that stuff about Iraq and Al-Qaida” fall?
>
>d)  “And yeah, that stuff about the nukes, I made that up, too” fall?
>
>e)  “I shoulda taken a look at that “State of the Union” thingy” fall?
>
>f)  “Ahmad Chalabi is a bery, bery, good friend of mine” fall?
>
>g)  “And so is Robert Novak” fall?
>
>h)  “And what ever did happen to that bin Laden fellow?” fall?
>
>i)  “Um, we could probably get some better info out of those prisoners if
>we roughed ‘em up a bit” fall?
>
>j)  And don’t forget, the "We’re wasting billions on a useless star wars
>program while ignoring homeland security for our nuclear and chemical
>plants” fall.
>
>We have only time constraints to keep us from going through the entire
>alphabet.
>=====
>
>I don't think j) really applies, but it's an amusing list nonetheless.

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