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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Attempted Bribes To Scientist To Dispute Climate Study

   It looks as if attempts were made to bribe scientist into disputing the a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

  The Guardian

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The AEI has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.

   Have you noticed a pattern here? Every time something illegal and crooked is exposed in the past few years,as far as governments are concerned, the guilty are all friends of the Bush administration.

   This administration will stoop as low as they possibly can to get their way. Their way should be the highway and ExxonMobil should be prosecuted, if possible.

 

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