NIE on Iraq Presented To President Bush

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By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus

Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 2, 2007

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.

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.

    So we are in Iraq helping the Iraqis gain democracy and doing battle with al-Qaeda which has become less of a threat there because the Iraqis cannot get along with each other!

    This is becoming Bush's worst nightmare and I see it getting worse than anything that we saw with Vietnam. I think that President Bush likes his nightmare as he continues to stay in it.

 

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