This CBC Fifth Estate piece is quite telling of the man who's office this leak is comming from. . Who was also heading up the intelligence and information that would be used to get us into not only this current Iraq War but the original as well.

How many are aware of Cheney's blatant lie that got Saudi Arabia to let United States troops on it's soil to be protected from Saddam? Remember a story about 250,000 troops and 1500 tanks amassed on the Iraq/Saudi boarder? Well Cheney was the one who was telling the world that without our intervention an imminent threat is about to invade you. Let us on your land so we can protect the Middle East. Well the satelite photo that Cheney used as proof was bogus. To this day those photo's have never been seen. Another satelite, a Russian one on the same day took pictures of that area as well. This reporter got ahold of it and went to Cheney's office. She said prove my photo's are wrong, and I won't publish the story. His office never returned calls or made contact with her to this day. She ran the story.

So Cheney lies to get us into Gulf War 1 and 2. And some still don't believe this same man could have had oversite and forknowledge of a tactic to leak a wife of a man who is questioning the very charges and claims being made by this Administration regarding Iraq. Threats that are supposively so immienent that action must be taken before cities are leveled in the form of a mushroom cloud.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, we have great intelligence. Best on the planet. Our techniques at the NSA, CIA, FBI, and all those other acroynmns that we aren't privy to are so sophisticated and advanced. They are so good. With systems like ECHELON, PROMISE, CARNIVOR, you have access to just about it all.

Large scale attacks don't go unnoticed, just as 9/11 was identified a minimum of 19 times by field agents and intellgience community's from all over the world. A small attack, like a gasoline bomb in a supermarket. I could see that being hard to nail down ahead of time. A suicide bomber of any type on American soil would be quite devistating. Also quite easy to pull off. Yet nothing since 9/11 has happened. Is that because it's harder to get in the country? Hardly. How about the radical extremists wouldn't they want to be fuckin' crazy hero for this cause and blow someone up in the USA? I thought they were resourceful and uber intense. Whatever. Is that what it is, while on your way to the USA don't forget to stop in at Iraq for a quick shootout and maybe a IED parade. While they are taking this time preparing for the continued journey to America U.S. troops deal with them accordingly.

Cheney with his 5 deferments (two are very suspicous) from Vietnam, flunked outta Yale twice, arrested for one DUI. And eventually made his way into politics by writing a law that would punish colleges for allowing anti-war protests.

What a guy.

Here is the entire episode (43 minutes) on 5th Estates site: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/video_player.html?cheney

Info about the episode: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/index.html

So you feel that our action in Gulf war I was completely uneccesary? I won't deny that it was done with less than good intentions, but it appears that you were against the operation in general.

Any war that did not need to be fought but was due to lies, deceit, and distortions of the truth I am heavily against. United States knew Saddam was going into Kuwait before he did it. We said we wouldn't "...interfere in your Arab affairs."

Of course some good came outta it, but I think the bad far outweighs such good in this case. Destroying Saddam's nuclear capability in the early 90's was probably the greatest thing done in the war. But that coulda been done with 10 tomahawks from out in the ocean. No need for a war to stop such nuclear ambitions.

Ah see. I am fairly ignorant about the whole matter, so I appreciate the enlightenment. Minus the overall cloud of deceit, it appears to me at first glance to fit the criteria of the just warfare theory.