Iraq

Iraq succumbs to the bigotry of low expectations.

National security agencies say Iraq is much worse, and the path to success much more tenuous than Bush lets on.

Things aren't getting better in Iraq. Over 2300 attacks in the past 30 days have occured. At least we haven't lost a battle yet, right?

Even worse, Bush was warned about how bad things would most likely get, was ignored by Bush and co.

Intelligence reports compiled in January 2003 predicted that an American invasion would result in a divided Iraq prone to internal violence, and increased sympathy in the Islamic world for some terrorist objectives, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The assessments were compiled from the views of various intelligence agencies by the National Intelligence Council which reports to the CIA director.

There was a "big stack" of prewar intelligence reports that said there was a high degree of possibility of insurgency and unrest, and that "winning the peace will be harder than winning the war," one source familiar with the reports said on condition of anonymity.

Another government source dismissed the significance of prewar predictions of unrest in a postwar Iraq. "Anybody who studied Iraq for a semester could say that was possible," the source said.

Which makes the fact that Bush and friends failed to prepare for it even more damning, doesn't it?

And oh yeah, Bush is a flip-flopper on Iraq.