“The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward, . . . The book describes a White House riven by dysfunction and division over the war.
The warning is described in ‘State of Denial,’ . . . Bush's top advisers were often at odds among themselves, and sometimes were barely on speaking terms, but shared a tendency to dismiss as too pessimistic assessments from American commanders and others about the situation in Iraq.
As late as November 2003, Mr. Bush is quoted as saying of the situation in Iraq: ‘I don't want anyone in the cabinet to say it is an insurgency. I don't think we are there yet.’"
“The Bush administration is not telling the public the whole story about the level of violence in Iraq and has not acknowledged that its intelligence experts predict ‘next year, 2007, is going to get worse, . . .’”
Friday, September 29, 2006
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