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...linings go, it's a tempting explanation, both because it admits the current problems are in large part a result of U.S. failures - to devote sufficient resources to training the Iraqis; to recognize that dissolving Saddam's security forces would leave a security vacuum; even perhaps to heed the prewar advice of then Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki that stabilizing Iraq would require in the region of 300,000 troops - at the same time as offering a rationale for "staying the course...
...information deal with getting something so big so wrong? Bush will defend to his last breath the decision to target Saddam, weapons or no, but he now talks like a convert about the need for intelligence reform. "Look, I asked a lot of questions beforehand," he says of the prewar intelligence. "Anytime you put a large group of people into a combat zone, you ask a lot of questions." Having said that, he admits he is now asking even more. "We've just got to make sure that everybody's voices are heard as the dots are connected...
Also, Bush is captive to his strong belief in loyalty. He didn't go after CIA chief George Tenet or anyone else for failures over 9/11 or prewar Iraq intelligence. When chief of staff Andrew Card was looking for a replacement for ousted Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, Card phoned one of the wise men of business and politics to consult. After discussing the merits of several candidates for a short time, Card interjected. "But are they loyal?" he asked. "That's the most important thing." Says the called consultant: "Loyalty seemed to be all they care about." Bush would...
...FEEL MISLED BY THE PREWAR INTELLIGENCE ASSERTING THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (WMD) AND LINKS TO AL-QAEDA? I do not feel misled at all. Actually, I'm very thankful that he didn't have the WMD. What would you have had us do? Stand by and wait until he did have them? I do believe there were assets inside the Saddam regime who were working with international terrorists, and I believe that al-Qaeda were among them...
...said the possibility of a smallpox attack by Iraq strengthened its case for war--and necessitated a major inoculation campaign. By mid-June, some 627,000 military employees and nearly 40,000 civilian first responders and health-care workers had been vaccinated. But this month's Senate report on prewar intelligence has concluded that the CIA's 2002 estimate that there was "an even chance" Saddam had weaponized smallpox was "not supported" by the evidence and says the agency now admits it has "no evidence that Iraq ever weaponized smallpox." David Kay, who ran the postwar hunt for Iraq...