[techweenie]

Well, as I suspected, we're more in agreement than not...

We disagree on WMDs, but even the Administration backed off of that claim months ago. Now what they're cliaming is that Saddam had *programs for making WMDs* which is hard to argue with, since there clearly were labs in Iraq. The Administration floated a balloon last year suggesting that Saddam *thought* he had WMDs but that all his people were lying to him. That didn't go over at all. So now it's programs vs. actual WMDs.

One big problem I have is that we didn't 'finish' with Afghanistan and OBL before going to Iraq. Afghanistan is big a mess, with Taliban and warlords controlling the majority of the countryside, according to many accounts. And I don't know where we are in regard to OBL.

On the quality of 'intelligence' sources, we can agree. Generally in private businesses, people who screw up that badly and often are fired. I've worked in companies whose m.o. was 'reward the guilty and punish the innocent' but I'd like to expect more from people our lives may depend on.

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One thing GWB deserves credit for is the Libyan turn over of weapons. All done quietly; backchannel and in concert with other countries.