September 22, 2004
In a photo-op with Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi yesterday, President Bush said that the CIA was just guessing as to what the conditions might be like,
in post-invasion Iraq. In particular is the guess
that the county would slip into Civil War.
{ Cue Sound of Head Exploding }
Just guessing?! Well, I guess it is obvious that our intelligence agencies have had some major gaffes lately. I suppose they were just guessing about the weapons of mass destruction too. I suppose they were just guessing that no nuclear secrets have spread out of Pakistan to every country in the region except Iraq!
So far, this seems to be the only [public] thing the CIA has gotten right - that Iraq could very well split into civil war. Leave it to the administration to point out that one thing as just a damn guess, and all of the other supposed evidence used as justification for invasion as irrefutable fact.