Why the hell did we go into Iraq?
Pre-War Intelligence Report on Iraq Released – washingtonpost.com
The U.S. intelligence community accurately predicted months before the Iraq war that al-Qaeda would link up with elements from former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s regime and militant Islamists to conduct terrorist attacks against U.S. forces in that country, according to a report released today by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Two national intelligence assessments sent to the White House and other senior Bush administration policymakers in January 2003 also predicted that al-Qaeda “would try to take advantage of U.S. attention on postwar Iraq to re-establish its presence in Afghanistan,” according to the Senate report.
It would seem that the President was and is still incapable of listening to opinions that differ from his. The nation is no safer. Billions of dollars are gone. 3400+ American soldiers and tens of thousands Iraqis are dead in a perdictable disaster. 605 days until Dubya retires back to Texas where he can pretend to be a cowboy full time.
