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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Elroy who wrote (196918)2/18/2007 4:46:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793743
 
This author seems to be making the point (not specifically about WMDs) that the administration disregarded loads of intelligence in the decision to go to war and disregarded loads of intelligence in failing to plan for the aftermath of the war

I agree the author is saying that the admin. disregarded loads of evidence, but he is not backing it up with the loads of evidence that were supposedly disregarded, and I get the distinct impression that what we are talking about here is a basic policy difference, not specific intelligence findings presented and then ignored.

And if it is a basic policy difference, then we have Policy-making agency A: the CIA, vs. Policy-making agency B: The White House. Which is, as Pillar explains, exactly how it is NOT supposed to work.

Besides, color me cynical, but I have to believe that the CIA's evidence is being improved in retrospect, while the reasons why the status quo was considered unsustainable at the time are being quietly swept under the rug.

Note the delicate phrasing: "world opinion" considered that Saddam was "in a box". Well, the United States was of a different opinion - the opinion that it got to build and sustain the box, while all its allies and rivals profited from undermining it and tearing it apart.
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