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Anti-American escalations. Losing Kerry at the movies. A Kerry serenade. Fox foxes. Plus more.
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Mr. Corry’s column and others pointing out the administration’s mistakes about WMD existence in Iraq is disturbing, but isn’t another way of looking at it that the Bush administration took a worst-case scenario view, given the conflicting data and Hussein’s many attempts to obtain WMD’s in the past?
American intelligence has had so many glaring failures over the years, frequently underestimating other countries’ capabilities, that it was arguably correct to assume the worst. Hussein had tried to assassinate a former U.S. president and likely had links to al Qaeda after all.
p>What would have been the consequences of leaving him power and watching the sanctions erode? Perhaps just what Bush officials predicted, a WMD attack on the U.S. via some terrorist cutout. br> — Richard Clement br> Richmond, Virginia /p> p> CHILLED BORDEAUX
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