Anthony Cordesman's Excellent Article: Iraq: Too Close to Call!

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(This is a PDF File, and a long but excellent read about how Bush's policy in Iraq could fail, linked from this article from Center for American Progress (New Dem Think Tank)
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TARGETED LEAKS CONTINUE: The Bush Administration touts the virtue of secrecy when refusing to answer questions about who wrote the energy bill or what the White House knew prior to 9/11. But it seems, once again, that same virtue has not applied to top secret classified information. Just a few months after revelations that the White House leaked the name of a covert CIA officer to intimidate one of its critics, the Weekly Standard published a leaked Administration memo that exposes classified intelligence data purporting to prove a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. While the Administration has repeatedly claimed a tight tie between Saddam and the terrorist network, no connection has been found (see American Progress's section on this in its Claim vs. Fact document). The Pentagon was quick to denounce the leak – and the Weekly Standard story – saying, "The classified information was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions." That was corroborated in Sunday's WP, which reported that, according to Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "The CIA's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found no evidence that former president Saddam Hussein tried to transfer chemical or biological technology or weapons to terrorists."

(More at this link for PDF File .....Great Read!)

http://www.csis.org/features/031114toouncertain.pdf