With the US military death toll in Iraq reaching the 1000 mark (as if a nice, round 4 digit number makes a goddamned bit of difference) and a phony Iraqi election around the corner, it is just befitting to hear that even the CIA doesn’t think this war is going anywhere.
In the day and age when Nixon and Reagan are venerated as visionaries, those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.
From the NYTimes:
“… over all, the officials described the station chief’s cable in particular as an unvarnished assessment of the difficulties ahead in Iraq. They said it warned that the security situation was likely to get worse, including more violence and sectarian clashes, unless there were marked improvements soon on the part of the Iraqi government, in terms of its ability to assert authority and to build the economy.”
Also enlightening is CIA head Goss’s comment that his agency’s position is to “provide the intelligence as we see it.”
