"At 11:45 that same morning, in the Cabinet Room, a formal presentation was made by the Central Intelligence Agency to a number of high officials of the government. Photographs were shown to us. Experts arrived with their charts and their pointers and told us that if we looked carefully, we could see that there was a missile base being constructed in a field near San Cristobal, Cuba. I, for one, had to take their word for it. I examined the pictures carefully, and what I saw appeared to be no more than the clearing of a field for a farm or the basement of a house. I was relieved to hear later that this was the same reaction of virtually everyone at the meeting, including President Kennedy." [from _Thirteen Days_, by Robert F. Kennedy, pp. 23-24]

Though that October crisis and our current situation are not identical, it would be a good idea for those who decry the supposedly "vague" nature of our intelligence on WMD to do some historical research into the nature of such intelligence reporting.

The current administration may yet be vindicated -- the evidence of Iraq's pre-war illegal arms is not so discredited as critics contend. JFK made decisions based on evidence that the current anti-war crowd would deride as much.