Woolsey wins the whopper-of-the-day award

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Aaron Brown didn't even blink.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Woolsey had the gall to say that this was the first time in U.S. history that we overestimated a threat. Has he never heard of the "bomber gap" and the various "missile gaps"? Is this an admission that those were deliberate falsifications, whereas this one was an "actual" mistake?

We've habitually overestimated threats since the end of World War 2, and we actually "believed" some of them.

While I'm on the damned subject, doesn't this kill the concept of pre-emptive strikes? They're premised upon ACCURACY. If we can't be accurate about a country we've had under a microscope for over a decade, with operatives ON THE GROUND doing inspections with the U.N. and skulking around everywhere, how can we claim accuracy about other poor suckers in our crosshairs?

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1. Preemptive self-defense is a myth

regardless of what you know.

http://www.asil.org/taskforce/oconnell.pdf

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2. "War is always predicated on lies"

Sun-Tzu