Originally Posted By: jack maloney
According to our "former intelligence officer":
Originally Posted By: L. Brown
...the United States had no national intelligence organization prior to the creation of the Office of Strategic Services, which did not come into being until after WWII.

In fact, the OSS was established on June 12, 1942.

Now - about those WMDs...


Jack, I'm proud of you. You caught me on that one! (Of course unlike some, I'm quite willing to admit it when I goof.) I meant to say "until after WWII began".

WMD's . . . excellent article on the subject, recently posted at http://www.aina.org/news. What the "WMD naysayers" have never been able to answer is: Since we knew Saddam did indeed have WMD's at one time . . . where did they go? That article provides what appears to be a pretty well-researched answer.

F2F, although we've done a pretty good job of kicking Communism onto the ash heap of history, they're still out there. See North Korea, Cuba, China . . . and the campuses of far too many American universities, especially in liberal arts. And since we still use the word "Nazis", why would "Commies" be dated?

We've now reached 9 pages of "stifled discourse". Darn that Jim, causing us all to shut up with his evil tag line.

Last edited by L. Brown; 11/23/07 09:11 AM.