Sydney Morning Herald item on CIA Iraq report

Post #125,432 by dmarker 11/12/03 9:39:55 PM Reply	Sydney Morning Herald item on CIA Iraq report [link\|http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/12/1068329639474.html\|http://www.smh.com.a...068329639474.html] >>>> Iraqis confident they can beat you, CIA tells Bush By Jonathan Landay in Washington November 13, 2003 A new, top-secret CIA report from Iraq warns that growing numbers of Iraqis believe the US-led coalition can be defeated and are supporting the resistance. The report paints a bleak picture of the political and security situation in Iraq and cautions that the US-led drive to rebuild the country as a democracy could collapse unless corrective actions are taken immediately. Paul Bremer, the US administrator in Iraq, who has arrived unexpectedly in Washington for strategy sessions, essentially endorsed the CIA's findings, a Bush Administration official said. The president of Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council, Jalal Talabani, last night called for a provisional government to be installed as soon as possible. The report's bleak tone and Mr Bremer's private endorsement differ sharply with the upbeat public assessments that President George Bush, his chief aides and Mr Bremer are giving as part of an aggressive publicity campaign aimed at countering rising anxieties at home over increasing US casualties. Two Administration officials described the report's findings in broad terms, but did not give excerpts or details. The report landed on Monday, so the speed of the leak suggested that senior policymakers want to make sure the assessment reaches Mr Bush. Some of them have complained that it is almost impossible to provide Mr Bush with analyses that are other than the optimistic views of the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, and other hardliners. The CIA analysis suggests US policy in Iraq has reached a turning point, as the Bush Administration moves to escalate the war against the guerillas and accelerate the transfer of power to Iraqis. But the CIA also warns that none of the postwar Iraqi political institutions and leaders has shown an ability to govern the country, let alone preside over the drafting of a constitution. <<<<< DSM
Post #125,440 by a6l6e6x 11/12/03 10:48:31 PM Reply	The CIA Iraq report leak is mentioned in US, also. For example in the [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/politics/13INTE.html\|NY Times]. Obviously the CIA guys know how to play the game to get the facts out. The White House shit of blaming the CIA for faulty intelligence, cuts both ways. Alex "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." - Henry Kissinger
Post #125,444 by deSitter 11/12/03 11:38:36 PM 11/12/03 11:39:31 PM Reply	Consider.. In Vietnam, we had the legitimate excuse that the military fought with one arm. They could not do the things you would ordinarily do to an enemy. And, most of the fighting men were draftees who had no stomach for a war without clear goals. In this case, we pulled out all the stops - bunker busters, highest tech intelligence, and unlike in Vietnam, no resistance from the regular army. We're going to lose this war unless we bomb their cities into rubble and kill millions of their citizens, as in Japan, until their will to fight is broken. Since that is impossible, the war is effectively lost. That is what Bush has accomplished - to send our A team down to defeat. Imagine how North Korea will be heartened, to say nothing of the Chinese. This is what you get when you install a congenital idiot in the top job. -drl Edited by deSitter Nov. 12, 2003, 11:39:31 PM EST Expand All History
Post #125,492 by mmoffitt 11/13/03 11:26:41 AM Reply	Now, watch us run. Gotta get our boys back home before next November. Bremer's going back with the President's New Plan for returning Iraq to the Iraqis. We'll GTF out soon I suspect. And Dubya will be praised as being a great diplomat after winning the war (watch CNN and tell me that won't happen). We'll be The Good Guys(tm) again. We came, We conquered, We Left. My BL: He lied. They died. And he's going to get away with it. bcnu, Mikem Java, Junk. Both start with a "J", both have four letters. Coincidence? I think not.

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