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Monday, July 14, 2003
posted by gbarto at 3:47 AM:
I see our FNC headline of the moment is Bush Team Defends Statement. I think some of this is a matter of perspective. The CIA is in the biz of making sure the President knows as much about what's up as can be known. But that means that with something like Saddam there are two possible approaches: If you're advising whether the UN can be forced to acknowledge the need to clean up WMDs, there'd damn well better be WMDs to be cleaned up. But if you're suggesting what the President needs to keep in mind while setting a course, it would be as irresponsible to suggest that Bush need not lose sleep over an African source for uranium for Iraq as it would be to tell the UN you're one hundred percent certain when you're only 95% certain.This is a point the administration needs to keep coming back to: we were up against a guy who had fought Iran and Kuwait, who had gassed his own people, who had boldly announced he would not accede to requests for proof he was WMD free. So we were only 95% sure he had them. There's a helluva lot of smoke indicating a fire not too long ago put out. And so, as Tenet was duty bound to assume the worse unless he had proof of things being better, so the US was duty bound - by noblesse oblige - to assume the worst and attempt to protect the world from it.
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