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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST -- YOU ARE A LIKE A KAZOO -- SAME TIRESOME NOTE OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!
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You first posted an article disputing the Feith memo, which pointed to numerous pieces of evidence of inter-system connection. As you put it, "
The article pretty convincingly dissects the Feith memorandum as a political piece which ignores key evidence, and also explains why -- despite seeing everything cited by Feith, the CIA and British intelligence remain convinced that there was probably no real link between al Qaeda and the Hussein government."
I took that to be your point. Tell me if I got that wrong.
As your discussion progressed, you had to reply to a mention of the many points not dealt with in your proferred article by saying that, of course, there were contacts, how could there NOT have been contacts, after all, they had common enemies and operated in common localities. (Hmm. Common enemies. Oh, yeah, the French.) I thought your theme had, at that point, been abandoned, and your direction changed. From "probably no real link" to "well, just THOSE links, and we don't think those links count for much", struck me as being similar to much of what I have been seeing in the way of disolving rhetoric here and elsewhere.
At that spot in the dialogue, you were operating in the realm of the hindsighted, and your main point in bringing up the original article (I assumed that you had a point, and, given your history, while I had to do a little extrapolation to determine what that point might be, I am mostly comfortable with my determination) seemed to be subsumed in your new point, that of, "if I can see it now, why couldn't he see it before?"
You now say "
They (your comments) were not directed towards the 2004 elections. They never criticized Bush, nor were they intended to criticize the administration for suggesting a link pre-War."
See, that's the line that I can't buy. Why would you bring up an article purporting to trash the Feith memo unless you wanted to show a lack of any link between SH and AQ? That was the entire point of the Feith memo, and the memo to which you linked was themed specifically to refute that point.
(P.S. You can just call me Bilmore. JFC is so formal for this forum . . .)
