Ho hum, more liberal bias

Filed in Uncategorized by on June 8, 2007

Oh wait, It looks like this was written by the guy that actually worked on 2 of the classified Iraq Assesments.  No doubt he is a liberal pussy, that hates America, works for CBS and doesn’t see all the good that is going on in Iraq (even though he predicted that everything going wrong with Iraq was going to happen)  Regardless, this guy is an asshole and should be put in jail, not like that Patriot Scooter. 

 the weapons estimate was one of only three classified, community-coordinated assessments about Iraq that the intelligence community produced in the months prior to the war. Don’t feel bad if you missed the other two, which addressed the principal challenges that Iraq likely would present during the first several years after Saddam’s removal, as well as likely repercussions in the surrounding region. After being kept under wraps (except for a few leaks) for over four years, the Senate committee quietly released redacted versions of those assessments on its website May 25, as Americans were beginning their Memorial Day holiday weekend.I initiated those latter two assessments and supervised their drafting and coordination. My responsibilities at the time as the National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia concerned analysis on political, economic and social issues in the region

the other two assessments spoke directly to the instability, conflict, and black hole for blood and treasure that over the past four years we have come to know as Iraq. The assessments described the main contours of the mess that was to be, including Iraq’s unpromising and undemocratic political culture, the sharp conflicts and prospect for violence among Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian groups, the Marshall Plan-scale of effort needed for economic reconstruction, the major refugee problem, the hostility that would be directed at any occupying force that did not provide adequate security and public services, and the exploitation of the conflict by Al-Qaeda and other terrorists.

The assessments support the proposition that the expedition in Iraq always was a fool’s errand rather than a good idea spoiled by poor execution, implying that the continued search for a winning strategy is likely to be fruitless.

Tags:

About the Author ()

hiding in the open

Comments (3)

Trackback URL | Comments RSS Feed

  1. liberalgeek says:

    Whoops, didn’t mean to stomp on you DV.

  2. donviti says:

    no worries….

  3. Rebecca says:

    I am not a Middle Eastern scholar but I KNEW this. Heck, I remember talking to Jason back then and he knew this. And I don’t think either one of us would claim to be scholars of any sort. All it took was a small knowlege of history, a little knowledge of Middle Eastern culture, a strong memory of Viet Nam, and some common sense. Sheesh!