President Bush as Commander-in-Chief used his power of office to order more U.S. troops into harm's way in the face of a National Intelligence Estimate which says that the U.S. has little control over an increasingly perilous situation in Iraq. How smart and how responsible is that? Bush knew this delayed NIE report was about to be released and he knew its findinging before he ordered his stupid surge. Bush is throwing a snowball at an avalanche, and Brad thinks it has a possibility of working and must be given a chance to succeed. Played for a sucker again. Some people never learn. Americans are guilty of group think and mass psychosis when they buy anything that Bush says and continue to believe the disasterous U.S. war in Iraq is reversible or salvagable.
Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Intelligence Report Warns
quote:No Public Iraq NIE? By Spencer Ackerman [TPMmuckraker] February 1, 2007, 6:11 PM
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 2, 2007; A01
A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control and there is a strong possibility of further deterioration, according to sources familiar with the document.
In a discussion of whether Iraq has reached a state of civil war, the 90-page classified NIE comes to no conclusion and holds out prospects of improvement. But it couches glimmers of optimism in deep uncertainty about whether the Iraqi leaders will be able to transcend sectarian interests and fight against extremists, establish effective national institutions and end rampant corruption.
The document emphasizes that although al-Qaeda activities in Iraq remain a problem, they have been surpassed by Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence as the primary source of conflict and the most immediate threat to U.S. goals. Iran, which the administration has charged with supplying and directing Iraqi extremists, is mentioned but is not a focus.
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US to make public key judgements of Iraq intel assessment
quote:The sober conclusion:
AFP 5:00 am EST Friday 02 February 2007
US intelligence plans to make public "key judgements" of its first national assessment on Iraq in two and a half years, which reportedly warns of a strong chance the situation on the ground will grow worse.
In the face of a National Intelligence Estimate warning of an increasingly perilous situation in Iraq, Commander-in-Chief Bush decides to throw more U.S. troops into the breech. That is NOT "supporting the troops". Bush is again acting in a self-serving impetuous selfish manner. Bush and his policy in Iraq have failed and the deaths of more U.S. soldiers can't save Bush's reputation or his lost war.
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