*DAMN R6 Forum

From "the Gardian" UK Broadsheet, 29th september

The bush Administration disregarded intelligence reports two months before the invasion of Iraq which warned that a war could unleash a violent insurgency and rising anti-US sentiment in the M iddle East, it emerged yesterday.
The warneing, delivered in two classified reports to the White House in Januarry 2003, was preared by the National Intelligence Council, the same advisory board that warned the Bush Administration last month that the violence in Iraq could descend into a civil war.
That forcast radically departs from George Bush's upbeat assertions that the situation is improving in Iraq, and he initially dismissed the assment as a "guess".
The revelation yesterday that the White House was simplilarly cavalier about prewar warnings could hurt Mr Bush in the run-up to tomorrow's presidential debate, which is focused on foreign policy.
The existence of the prewar National Intelligece Council estimate was reported by the conservative columnist, Robert Novak, on Monday , as well as in yesterday's New York Times.
The manner in which the assessment came to light has attracted as much attention as its contents.
According to Mr Novak, details of the estimate were disclosed by Paul Pillar, the CIA's national intelligence officer for the near east and south Asia and one of the officials involved in preparing the report, at a private kinner on the west coast. Mr Pillar told his dinner compainions that the White House had disregarded the warnings.
Mr Pillar also suggested that the Bush administration was so focused on going to war that it never considered the prospect of an anti-American backlash. "When Pillar was asked why this was not made clear to the president and other higher authorities, his answer was that nobody asked, " Mr Novak writes.
Mr Pillar's frustration was widely shared yesterday by intelligence professionals who said they were undermined by an administration in which ideologues often had the final say over polic-making, as well as by the agency's managment, which they belived was overly compliant with Pentagon and White House hardliners.
"The CIA had come out before the war, and had been telling the administration all kinds of things it didn't want to hear, said Melissa Mahle, a  former CIA operative in the MIddle East. "The CIA Feels very embattled right now. They feel vulnerable to accursations of politicisation in the run-up to the war, and to a degree they are vulnerable becasue of the war George Tenet played.
Yesterday a governmnet official confirmed that the two prewar reports had sounded clear warnings of a widening struggle for Iraq. The official also noted that the conclusions in the assessment were shared by the entire intelligence community, not just the CIA.
"It talked about possible insurgency, possibly waging of guerrilla warfare, the possibility of domestic groups engageming in violent conflict, " the official said.
The official confirmed that Mr Pillar had been granted CIA authorisation to speak to the gathering, but on the understanding that the session remain confidential.
------------------------------------------

.... Ok so it wasn't funny sorry.

oh and GS didn't you say you had loads of friends in the 'intelligence serices' etc, dosn't seem to match up with what you said about them etc...

about the so-called debates that will start tomorrow:

http://opendebates.org/theissue/

wow... its almost as funny as the fact the US is denying prisoners at Guantanimo bay the right to a fair trial. - instead we are seeing these closed door military kanagroo couts where the accused are not even allowed a lawyer. - and their 'advisers' are enployed by the Army and can tell them anything that the accused has told them. wow you Gotta love that freedom of speech.

I think puppies are really funny!

That and kittens.