On the day in 2003 when Iraqi mobs toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Bush was said to be unaware of the possibility that a Sunni-Shia civil war could fill the power vacuum, according to a reliable source with good White House connections. If President Bush and some of his closest associates, not to mention top counterterrorism officials, have demonstrated their own ignorance about who the players are in the Middle East, why should we expect the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee to get it right?Hey, this sounds like the soft bigotry of low expectations!
If President Bush and some of his closest associates, not to mention top counterterrorism officials, have demonstrated their own ignorance about who the players are in the Middle East, why should we expect the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee to get it right?
While this article seems to make a good point about the new Dem to be in charge and his lack of knowledge, I will not accept another anonymous source that purports proof that Bush's war planners (Rummy, Franks etc.) had no knowledge or made no consideration for the possible strife between the vaious Islamic factions. How those reactions played out is another story but to claim a pure ignorance about this is simply unproved by the anonymous sourcing this writer utilizes.