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3. CIA did 100 inspections, all negative, before the war. They knew.

Reply to Mr. Sparkle (Original post)

Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:03 PM

Nov 2018

The war was allegedly based on defector reports, blared on Page 1 of NYT articles by Judith Miller.
The CIA used the UN inspectors to test the veracity of many such reports. There were roughly 100 inspections. Not a single one verified the report. That is why I never believed that it was an honest mistake by the CIA.

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