article from earlier today.
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The National Intelligence Council presented President Bush (news - web sites) this summer with three pessimistic scenarios regarding the security situation in Iraq (news - web sites), including the possibility of a civil war there before the end of 2005.
In a highly classified National Intelligence Estimate, the council looked at the political, economic and security situation in the wartorn country and determined that — at best — a tenuous stability was possible, a U.S. official said late Wednesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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The estimate appears to differ from the public comments of Bush and his senior aides who speak more optimistically about the prospects for a peaceful and free Iraq. "We're making progress on the ground," Bush said at his Texas ranch late last month.
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In a conference call arranged by the John Kerry (news - web sites) presidential campaign, Sen. Bob Graham (news, bio, voting record), D-Fla., called on the White House to release the new assessment. "The American people need to know the truth," he said Thursday.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=3&u=/ap/20040916/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_____
This is still a highly classified document, but now the repugs can't whine that it's not believable because it comes from the "liberal" NY Times. Thanks to Bob Graham for stepping up to the plate. And a big thanks to AP reporter Katherine Pfleger Shrader for politely saying that bush has been lying on the campaign trail. He's had this information yet continues to tell the American people the opposite.
Later in the article, the dimwitted apologist for evil, Scott McClellan, said regarding the changing circumstances in Iraq, "It's important that you have some flexibility."
By flexibility does he mean...flip-flop? WTF? I thought bush was resolute? Now the terrorists are dictating our strategy to us?
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