CBS: CIA warned the aftermath of the Iraq invasions could get ugly

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/05/eveningnews/main2436928.shtml

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The intelligence about Iraq was not all wrong. On the eve of the invasion, CIA analysts, including Paul Pillar, warned the aftermath could get ugly.

"It would be long. It would be turbulent. It would be filled with conflict and probably violence," Pillar had said.

But former CIA officer and now-CBS consultant John Brennan says the administration passed over that intelligence.

"I don't think there was enough attention paid to those assessments that said after the war, after the invasion, there's going to be difficulty in the streets of Iraq and in Baghdad," Brennan says.

[babylonsister]

1. Could get? There's an understatement. nt

[DemoTex]

3. "Would" or "should" come to mind. eom

[underpants]

2. So did millions of protestors

This was not a secret

[SharonAnn]

4. Funny, that's what I said too. And I'm just an american who reads

newspapers, magazines, history books and watches network news, cable news, C-SPAN, and PBS.

It literally didn't take a "rocket scientist" to hear and read those views and then come to understand them.


And, of course,it was obvious that * was anxious to go to war which should have made us all suspicious.