Reply #3: As one of the US military's chief proponents of the theory that

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all that Saddam rhetoric was only ever 'sabre rattling' how come he didn't mention anything earlier?

After the 9-11 debacle which was touted as a 'massive intelligence failure' how could the US military concoct another massive intelligence failure' in the form of the pre-war weapons data?

1 failure seems a bit careless, 2 seems downright suspicious....