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| "the word of the same clowns who assured us Iraq had WMD" I did not find this childish statement to be credible when Trump made it and repeating it does not make it more credible. | |
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So, why is that a childish statement, outside of the fact you disagree with it?
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| The events of 14 years ago have little relevance to today. | |
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What? There's a statute of limitations on facts?
Look, it suits you to accept the CIA on this occasion because what they're claiming suits your agenda. I get that. I'm a fair bit more cynical about civil servants, their reliability and motivations. Just as I was with the FBI's intervention during the campaign, or was that a bad call for you?
Anyhow, you never got past my criticism of the CIA in your response. Not much I can do with that. As I said, for me blaming the Russians appears simply to be a way to avoid any self criticism on the part of the HRC supporters, because what ultimately damaged her more had nothing to do with email.
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| Anyway they would not be the "same clowns"; they will have been moved on or out years ago and now the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence not direct to the President. | |
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And replaced by...
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| CIA has over 20,000 employees so labelling them all with the Iraq failure is not realistic. | |
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I'm sure it didn't take all 20,000 of them to conclude that Saddam had WMD.
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| Finally let us not forget Saddam himself claimed he had WMDs | |
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Let's hope that's not where the CIA got their intelligence on the subject.
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| if he had allowed UN inspections he would likely still be around? | |
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Quite possibly. Are you suggesting regime change was justified?