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September 22, 2004
Just Guessing

State of the Union Address, January 2003

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.

Remarks by President Bush and Prime Minister Allawi …, September 2004

Q Right here, Mr. President, thank you. Why do you think the CIA’s assessment of conditions in Iraq are so much at odds with the optimism that you and Prime Minister Allawi are expressing at the moment?

PRESIDENT BUSH: The CIA laid out a — several scenarios that said, life could be lousy, like could be okay, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like. …

Juan Cole asks the question every voter in the US should be asked: What if what is happening in Iraq would happen at the appropriate scale in the US and the European Union would say “freedom and democracy are just around the corner”?

Posted by b on September 22, 2004 at 07:45 UTC | Permalink
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And then, there is that word “guessing”. So now we’re suppose to believe the 40 billion $ CIA is “guessing”, and so, how long have they been paid to be “guessing”? I thought their problem has been “groupthink”, or is that the same as “guessing”?
When are they going to run out of adjectives? I have.

Posted by: anna missed | Sep 22 2004 8:15 utc | 1

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