CNN: Secret Intelligence Reports Warned Bush of DISASTEROUS AFTERMATH

[Raya]

This could be a bombshell.

Leaked National Intelligence Council report predicted before the war that
Sadaam loyalist would be radicalized and would team-up with
radical Islamists to create deadly insurgency.

Bush ignored the report (on vacation perhaps).

Will the media run with this or cover it up?

How can Dems keep this story going?

[Burma Jones]

1. Did Cheney keep them secret from Chimpy?

[madrchsod]

2. what`s so secret about that?

any one with a functioning brain knew that,why else would millions of people around our planet protest the war? this new report is like all the others, nothing will come of it....

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. Aw, Come on..... The NIC is only.................

Guessing. Everyone knows that.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Is CNN reporting this on TV, or just on their website? Are they...

covering it as the important story it is?

[ItsMyParty]

5. Leaked----that's the word I like

Someone in the inside or the intelligence community is trying to bring this guy down. I've noticed as these things pop up the media will at best give it a day's run and then bury in the backyard along with all the other bones of this administration. Maybe there are some bombshells coming from the intelligence community before Nov. 2nd. They hate him and so do the boys inside the Pentagon. Stay tuned.

[Connie_Corleone]

6. The intelligence community wants monkeyboy gone too.

I just can't see how ANYONE could vote for Bush after all this crap coming out!

[Vincardog]

10. I can't imagine anyone voting for Bush ever. OK I give him his base 1%

[dennis4868]

13. No one could ever come up.....

in a objective way, with a reason to vote for another 4 years of Bush? But still many will vote for him. I just dont get it. I am starting to think that if Bush, on live TV, murdered his parents and kids, he would still be leading in the polls, and the media would say he killed in the name of defending you the people of this fine country....it is crazy!

UP IS DOWN, DOWN IS UP!

[HootieMcBoob]

8. Maybe Daniel Elsberg's piece in the NY Times today is making a difference

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/opinion/28ellsberg.html

[Texas_Dem]

7. Maybe Shrub thought the CIA was just guessing

again.

[Bleacher Creature]

9. Stop bothering me with this crap

Scott Peterson's defense team just admitted that he;s had other affairs. And John Kerry is now really tan.

Can't you people get your priorities in order?

[Lex]

11. Sad, but true.

[Supersedeas]

14. Now for more innane poll results and a candidate fashion segment

Shirt sleeves and the rolled look - which plays better with Mid-West voters, Judy?

[gasperc]

12. although the "report" was kept secret

many, many people howled of the risks of radicalized loyalists and others waging war against an occupation. On top of that, millions took to the streets with many of these exact same critisms.

My beef, in general, is that the war was pressed to find WMD, we knew where they were(in and around Tikrit) and we must secure Iraq's stock of WMD. So we were told.

Now that we have been there for over 18months it's a war against terrorist and terrorism. Iraq is a flypaper for Islamic terrorist and it's better we "take the fight to them, then having them kill Americans here in the states". So we are told.

So our soldiers are decoys in Iraq?? safeguarding the rest of us from terrorism??? I work with many conservatives, they were itching to go into Iraq before 9/11, definately after 9/11 and wholeheartedly support the effort now. They don't care if there were WMDs there or not, many would like to see Iraq turned into a parking lot and their oil taken as a spoil of war and as retribution for 9/11. In short, they are nuts. Breaking this facade is key, Rumsfeld stated many times following the initial invasion that troops would be drawn down by the end of 2003 to less than half the invasion force.

Here we are at late 2004 and there are more troops and personel in Iraq than the initial invasion AND there is more violence and instability than ever.

This is the most mismanaged, deceitful war in the history of America. To critisize Kerry for being supportive of removing the Saddam from power and oppossing the on-going diasterous policy in Iraq is baseless. To not say anything would be akin to staying quiet while the Boston Red Sox replaced their pitcher with Bozo the clown. Hey the opposing team just scored 42 runs in one inning, oh better be quiet don't want to give the enemy encouragement.

Come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wiggs]

15. I don't see it on CNN website. nt

[Raya]

18. Wolf reported on it. Not sure transcript is available.

[Roland99]

19. Wow...he must have been crying reading that one.

[wiggs]

20. Saw it in OC Register...

...attributed to New York Times.

In the Register, it was a small article on page 16. Seems to me this is front page stuff.

[WiseMen]

16. Its all about CHARACTER. Point should be: "Bush is running a scam"

[PROGRESSIVE1]

17. .

[Roland99]

21. Here's Scotty-boy on the topic

http://www.talkradionews.com/news/article.php?articleID=288

<snip>

Q The NSC report in January of '03 that warned the presence of Baathists might form an insurgence in Iraq, to create what could turn out to be a bad situation there, a true situation. These are the same people that warned the President in July about -- a rather pessimistic view of what might happen in Iraq, which he originally dismissed as guess work. Is this report from July being reevaluated at all?

MR. McCLELLAN: Is what being --

Q Is the intelligence he received from July being reevaluated, given the track record of this group?

MR. McCLELLAN: The intelligence received in July? Are you talking about the National Intelligence Estimate?

Q Yes --

MR. McCLELLAN: Look, I'm not going to get into discussing classified intelligence matters or classified intelligence reports. But let me back up to the report that you brought up, because I think you need to go back and look at what the President has said often, as we moved toward making a decision of whether or not to go and remove Saddam Hussein from power.

The President was very well aware of the challenges that we faced if the decision was made to go and remove Saddam Hussein from power. He's also very well aware of the consequences of not acting to remove Saddam Hussein's regime and hold them accountable in a post-September 11th world. And the President's remarks to the American Enterprise Institute -- let me just read these to you -- he said, "Much is asked of America in this year, 2003" -- and this is back in February of 2003 -- "the work ahead is demanding. It will be difficult to help freedom take hold in a country that has known three decades of dictatorship, secret police, internal divisions, and war. It will be difficult to cultivate liberty and peace in the Middle East after so many generations of strife. Yet, the security of our nation and the hope of millions depend on us, and Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard. We have met great tests in other times, and we will meet the test of our time."

And then he goes on to talk about how we trust in the power of human freedom to change lives and change nations. And the policy decisions that we made and that we have continued to make reflect our awareness of the challenges that we face in Iraq going forward.

<snip>

[LittleClarkie]

22. Is it just me or is the Intelligence community getting bad press lately

I get the feeling the Bush Administration is trying to smear them like they smear everyone else who goes against them, knocking down their credibility.

I also get the feeling that the Intelligence community is putting in their two cents against Bush, perhaps because his administration sold out one of their own.

If there is such an effort amongst the spooks, good for them. This administration sure doesn't show them much respect. They get ignored, compromised, accused of incompetence and "guessing."