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September 16, 2004
Screwing the pooch, Part II
If the Bush administration had one-tenth the integrity it claims, it would also admit its own pooch screwing in Iraq.
American intelligence professionals now admit the situation in Iraq is out of control and the country faces a nation-destroying civil war. Even worse, any chance for stability fades with each day of increasing violence and tension in the war-torn country.
Seems the National Intelligence Council presented President Bush this summer with several pessimistic scenarios regarding the security situation in Iraq, including the possibility of a civil war there before the end of 2005.
In a highly classified National Intelligence Estimate, the council looked at the political, economic and security situation in the war-torn country and determined that - at best - stability in Iraq would be tenuous.
At worst,"trend lines point to a civil war," says an official familiar with the report.
An honest President would face the nation and say "we screwed up" and tell us how he intends to get our young men and women out of his morass.
But we don't have an honest President or an honest government or even an honest media taking a hard, honest look, at just what the hell is going on in Washington and Iraq.
Truth is often said to be the first casualty of war. Without truth, you can't have honesty.
Posted by dougthompson at September 16, 2004 10:20 AM
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