I don't understand why none of the Democrats that were around

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during the Nixon-Ford years and had to deal with Rumsfield, Wolfowitz, and Chaney before didn't bring this up, it seems to me it is a perfect example of shamming the American public into fear to get their way, just like this time:


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According to Curtis' BBC documentary, Wolfowitz's group, known as "Team
B," came to the conclusion that the Soviets had developed several
terrifying new weapons of mass destruction, featuring a nuclear-armed
submarine fleet that used a sonar system that didn't depend on sound and
was, thus, undetectable with our current technology. The BBC's
documentarians asked Dr. Anne Cahn of the U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency during that time, her thoughts on Rumsfeld's,
Cheney's, and Wolfowitz's 1976 story of the secret Soviet WMDs. Here's a
clip from a transcript of that BBC documentary:

"Dr ANNE CAHN, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1977-80: They
couldn't say that the Soviets had acoustic means of picking up American
submarines, because they couldn't find it. So they said, well maybe they
have a non-acoustic means of making our submarine fleet vulnerable. But
there was no evidence that they had a non-acoustic system. They're
saying, 'we can't find evidence that they're doing it the way that
everyone thinks they're doing it, so they must be doing it a different
way. We don't know what that different way is, but they must be doing it.'

"INTERVIEWER (off-camera): Even though there was no evidence.

"CAHN: Even though there was no evidence.

"INTERVIEWER: So they're saying there, that the fact that the weapon
doesn't exist.

"CAHN: Doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. It just means that we haven't
found it."

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