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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (196907)	2/18/2007 3:23:17 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) of 793743

Paragraph 1 - If the entire body of official intelligence analysis on Iraq had a policy implication, it was to avoid war -- or, if war was going to be launched, to prepare for a messy aftermath. What is most remarkable about prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq is not that it got things wrong and thereby misled policymakers; it is that it played so small a role in one of the most important U.S. policy decisions in recent decades. In paragraph one, Pillar basically says that the White House must always obey the analysis of the intelligence community. I don't see anything in paragraph 1 that says the White House must obey anything; rather, paragraph 1 just expresses the author's amazement that the White House appears to have chosen a path which disregarded the then available intelligence.

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