WASHINGTON - The National Intelligence Council presented President Bush (news - web sites) this summer with several pessimistic scenarios regarding the security situation in Iraq (news - web sites), including the possibility of a civil war there before the end of 2005.
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A scathing review of that estimate released this summer by the Senate Intelligence Committee found widespread intelligence failures that led to faulty assumptions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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"Our committee heard blindly optimistic people from the administration prior to the war and people outside the administration — what I call the 'dancing in the street crowd' — that we just simply will be greeted with open arms," Lugar said. "The nonsense of all of that is apparent. The lack of planning is apparent."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...id=542&ncid=716I am just shaking my head at this.. which such an obivious screw up heads should be rolling.. whats going on?? why arent people losing their jobs left and right... i am just DUMBFOUNDED that people are just rolling over and accepting this