[Belated post of material submitted to the panel on 8-21-03.]


INSLEE IRAQ FORUM

Dear Congressman Inslee (and panel):

Thank you for holding the forum on Iraq. A forum on intelligence may be more accurate. The goal should be to prevent failures in both. It should be clear that the failure is all in one’s head: that head being the head of our great country.

Punditry aside, though not necessarily accuracy, important questions should be asked and answered.

1. When did a policy of preemption take over?

2. Were WMD a primary factor in congress’s abrogation of their "war powers"?

3. Would not intelligence need to know the answer to question one or all
intelligence would be interpreted in an ineffective light?

4. Were actions taken, under the new policy, that would spur preemptive action by others?

5. Was congress following at least this closely?

While many more questions could follow from this line, of seemingly unanswered questions, I feel they do have answers. I feel that if not answered, at least, not answering them could have had predicted results. These are not simple questions, and answers and events are even more complicated. But I posed, if not answered, many of them before.

In almost anticipatory caution I recorded these, by following (with wonder) our leaders own words (or those of his supposed employees), from just before the 2000 campaign’s conclusion.

In the patriotic spirit of contribution,
always,
Roger Larson