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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (219270)2/18/2007 5:20:54 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
They had good reason to slime the Iraqi exiles since some of them were agents of Iran. Right?

guardian.co.uk

Of course it could just be a "grudge"- but they claim to have evidence. I guess we wait and see if it's hard evidence, or if it's yellow cake.

As for the war estimates- have you not read Fiasco?

nice summation there

realcities.com

this mentions both CIA and pentagon concerns with the war planning- for the invasion and the aftermath.

What I took away from Fiasco was that there was a very good plan for an Iraqi invasion which was a hold over from Bush senior's time. Unfortunately it planned for a lot more men than the Bush admin wanted to use. As I recall from Fiasco, that plan was scrapped, and a series of new plans were made up- first in one organization, then in another. It was clear the plans were hasty, and poorly thought out, but warnings about the plans (see the article above) were ignored. Some of the warnings came from the CIA, but the pentagon and the Army War college and various military people also chimed in. They were ignored.

You might find Fiasco interesting. You'd probably disagree with the conclusions, but the evidence in it, and the timelines, and the history, would interest you.
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