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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nraman" data-source="post: 1355433" data-attributes="member: 10001">Absolutely and I am sorry that Bush got away with it.In places like Iraq or Afghanistan and other places where you have to rely on local intelligence for survival and mission success, it kinda gets counterproductive when all your assets are exposed and you find them dead and all the locals know that the same will happen to them if they help.I think Paneta (first post) made it perfectly clear that it is an extremely serious national security issue. Perhaps he knows what he is talking about even if I don't.I was not even for the first Iraq war and I am not for the current wars and future Iranian war.When we first invaded Iraq in 03, I happen to read an article on Haaretz, a Tel Aviv newspaper. It mentioned that the Mossad was going to appear in front of the Knesset to explain why they were wrong about the WMDs. I immediately knew that we were had and although Bush kept "looking" and coming up with theories about what happened to the WMDs, nothing would be found. It was a setup.Regardless of how a President or other official behaved at one time or another, we should not throw away the baby with the bathwater. We still have to maintain security and take measures to assure it.I would like to add that on another thread I posted a link to former ambassador April Glaspie's meeting with Saddam where she clearly told him that he must not drive the oil prices down. There is a lot of dirt out there, no question about it, I just don't think we need the Aussie making things worse for us.</blockquote>

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