Iraq outlook dim in classified report

[enough]

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/9675958.htm

Posted on Thu, Sep. 16, 2004

Iraq outlook dim in classified report

The new intelligence estimate outlines three scenarios, none of them good. Two GOP senators criticized Bush's policy.
By Douglas Jehl
New York Times News Service


WASHINGTON - A classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq, government officials said yesterday.

The estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst case being developments that could lead to civil war, the officials said. The most favorable outcome described is an Iraq whose stability would remain tenuous in political, economic and security terms.

"There's a significant amount of pessimism," said one government official who has read the document, which runs about 50 pages. The officials declined to discuss the key judgments - concise, carefully written statements of intelligence analysts' conclusions - included in the document.

The intelligence estimate, the first on Iraq since October 2002, was prepared by the National Intelligence Council and was approved by the National Foreign Intelligence Board under John McLaughlin, the acting director of central intelligence. Such estimates can be requested by the White House or Congress, but the officials said this one was initiated by the intelligence council under George Tenet, who stepped down as director of central intelligence July 9.

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[cthrumatrix]

1. what's the saying -- "catostrophic success" if I remember shrubya's quote

[Lord_StarFyre]

2. Dumbya's Bunging

GODS I hope President Kerry focuses on this report like a laser, and blasts Dim Son with it... DAILY/HOURLY

Mission Accompliahed? My Ass

[havocmom]

3. Classified report? Classified because it validates all those protesters

who took to the streets of the world before bush*/Cheney invaded Iraq? Classified because the junta doesn't want anyone to know that millions of average people had better judgment, logic and decency than they have?

[cthrumatrix]

7. those were "terrorists" remember --- not antiwar protesters

[Nickster]

4. All I can say is.....

DUHHHHHH!!!!!

[karlrschneider]

5. 3 scenarios: Bad, Horrible or Bushed.

:grr:

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. dupe

of original NYT article here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x830143

[Moderator]

8. Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=830143