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...intelligence - meaning Congress and administration - needed to have a "higher tolerance for ambiguity," suggesting there should be a willingness to allow more running room for "dissenting views that aren't hidden by a footnote." In 2002 and 2003, the view of some intelligence analysts that Iraq did not have WMD was often included only in the footnotes of memos the CIA assembled for the Administration...
...hurry. It is a big success for all of us." The personal diplomacy worked, and an announcement was made on December 19 that Gaddafi had agreed to dismantle his weapons. Ten months later, after Western agents had worked to remove all the components of Libya's WMD program and dismantle its long-range ballistic missiles, Blair sent the Libyan leader a friendly letter of congratulation, addressing him as "Dear Muammar" and signing off, "Best wishes, Yours ever, Tony...
...which decision makers consider advice only from those who back one set of ideas. George Bush was elected in part as the education President. One of the hallmarks of an educated person is willingness to critically evaluate evidence for and against hypotheses: in this case, that Iraq had wmd and was supporting al-Qaeda. For that, I give him an F in critical thinking and in leadership. Joseph Melcher St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S. Unbearable - and Unmissable As upsetting as I expect it will be, I still would like to see United 93 [April 17]. That plane's story...
...intelligence on Iran better than it was on Iraq? It's good. It's solid. And I think ... what we've tried to improve since the WMD fiasco is building the safeguards. You have to build in different ways of double checking. You've got a team out there that takes the alternative hypothesis and tries to prove it with the same set of facts...
...indeed, the bombardment didn?t disturb the Iraqis all that much. In fact, some simply shrugged it off. "The Iraqis I spoke with were actually quite satisfied and pleased" following Desert Fox, said Charles Duelfer, the WMD expert who went looking for such contraband inside Iraq both before and after the U.S. invasion. "One individual I spoke with said, `Well, gee, if we knew that that was all you were going to do? - meaning the four days of bombing - `we would have ended this [standoff with U.N. arms inspectors], you know, earlier,?" Duelfer told a Senate panel in 2004. Following...