[derrida]

there wasn't what could be termed a solid consensus among the intelligence community. and the idea that certain reports could have been politically motivated isn't out of the realm of possibility. i remember watching powell give his powerpoint presentation and the person sitting next to me is saying that they were convinced of his arguments simply because they didnt believe so many claims about wmds would have been made if there wasnt something to it. i was actually close to thinking the same thing until i saw him bring out the niger yellowcake stuff. then i knew there was really no standard of evidence at all. did you not hear about the forgeries or did you actually believe the retarded apologetics about them?