Reply #76: Criminal negligence I agree with. [View All]

[Lone Pawn]

My personal belief is that the President is such an idiot he just didn't think "Well, this might be important."

Anyway, as regards PNAC involvement: I agree the paper is quite disquieting. But on the other hand, I believe that it was largely because of that series of papers that they gained so much power in the first place. They said "We're going to be under attack by Muslims and as such we need to turn into a police state. Now, in order to do this, we'd need to be attacked." Everyone goes "Yeah, okay." Then we were attacked by Muslims. And PNAC goes, "Well, yeah. Duh. We told you so. Now, in order to win this thing, we need to do what we said we need to do. And it just so happens that things are perfect for *our* plan, so listen to us about how to do it." A bit simpler of an explanation, I think.

I agree that had we been caught planting it would have been disastrous...but, then again, the CIA are experts at fooling people of all nationalities. I don't think it's beyond their abilities to find some sarin and bury it in the sands, then bribe a local to show the Americans.

And the reasoning is only ever-shifting because they COULDN'T find WMD. Had they gotten lucky, it would have been WMD straight through.