I think Bush/Cheney should move the Oval Office to Baghdad to prove just how
good of a job they have done. If they last the year then they can move it
back to the U.S.
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Iraq is now a terrorist training ground, CIA says
Wed Jun 22, 2:05 PM ET
The CIA believes the Iraq insurgency poses an international threat and may
produce better-trained Islamic terrorists than the 1980s Afghanistan war
that gave rise to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, a U.S. counterterrorism
official said on Wednesday.
A classified report from the U.S. spy agency says Iraqi and foreign fighters
are developing a broad range of deadly skills, from car bombings and
assassinations to tightly coordinated conventional attacks on police and
military targets, the official said.
Once the insurgency ends, Islamic militants are likely to disperse as highly
organized battle-hardened combatants capable of operating throughout the
Arab-speaking world and in other regions including Europe.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050622/pl_nm/security_iraq_cia_dc_1&printer=1;_ylt=Ag58k0MawN8alOXeU1kAM.0b.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
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They Knew...
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned
before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
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U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - Iraq had essentially destroyed its illicit weapons
capability within months after the Persian Gulf War ended in 1991, and its
capacity to produce such weapons had eroded even further by the time of the
American invasion in 2003, the top American inspector in Iraq said in a
report made public today.
http://tinyurl.com/3p3q9
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/international/middleeast/0
6CND-INTE.html?hp=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=)
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The question of prewar intelligence has been thrust back into the public eye
with the disclosure of a secret British memo showing that, eight months
before the March 2003 start of the war, a senior British intelligence
official reported to Prime Minister Tony Blair that U.S. intelligence was
being shaped to support a policy of invading Iraq.
Moreover, a close reading of the recent 600-page report by the president's
commission on intelligence, and the previous report by the Senate panel,
shows that as war approached, many U.S. intelligence analysts were
internally questioning almost every major piece of prewar intelligence about
Hussein's alleged weapons programs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/21/AR2005052100474_pf.html
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