Intelligence Report Finds Iraqi Political Leaders ‘Unable to Govern Effectively’

That’s funny, the American people have known for some time that our current administration is also “Unable to Govern Effectively”. Now we know why Bush seems to feel the need to defend his equally incompetent Iraqi counterpart, they’re in the same boat.

Now does anyone really expect Bush to read this report…the man doesn’t read period.

This isn’t news. Cheney knew this in “94″. So why did he push for us to go to war. His company made big profits off of it, and screwed us in the process

I wonder if Hillary will read this NIE??

Saddam Hussein; Osama bin Laden; The CIA; the “raw intel”: Democrats; Congress; the Shi’ites; the Sunnis; the Iranians; Cindy Sheehan; Joe WIlson and Valerie Plame; Bill Clinton; The Iraq Study Group; the elected Iraqi government… …looks like its everyone’s fault except the people that put us there.

These people need to stop playing the blame game and get something done. Instead of making these reports to restate the problems that we already know exist they could be fixing them instead.
“Be part of the solution, not the problem”

I know that none of you left wing partisans care, but ABC butchered what the full report said in typical pseudo-journalistic fashion. No need to read the whole report.. just let a journalist tell you what it says.

Actually, i have read the NIE, all that has been declassified of course, and of course it says nothing new, military gains have been made, especially in the SURGE reinforced areas, but AQI have been relocating to the north where the troop presense isnt so great. As for political gains, there will not be any as long as the current puppet regime is in place. Watch Bill Moyers “the secret government”. Iraq and its government are just one more facet of America’s failed policies at instituting new governments in foreign countries (reference Nicaragua, Panama,etc…)
My father is a Vietnam veteran, and im sure he knows more than Bush will ever know about warfare. He told me last night that he laughed out loud when bush compared Iraq to Vietnam, and my fatyher even VOTED for him in 00 and 04….Now thats BAD,,,,

In my opinion the UN ought to assist more in the Middle East, after all, all nations benefit from a stable government where they do primary business. The UN ought move fast on developing new market export for the many small Iraqi merchant in textile, art, etc. this takes away from terrorism buildup and restart self-esteem. The United States and our allies should not be pulling all of this load, and this problem should have been undertaken years ago. I think terrorism could have been defeated by simpler means but for some reason no one in the political, social, religious influences undertook that chore. I support president Bush our troops and allies, and hopefully the termination of terrorism.

comparing Vietnam to Iraq, makes me think of the tens of thousands of US soldier’s lives that would have been lost, if we hadn’t pulled out when we did and stayed fighting in that quagmire…a decade after leaving Vietnam, free market economic reforms were instituted and 30 years later Vietnam is now a player in the global economy…and that region wasn’t destabilized…we need to get out of the business of nation building and mediating a civil war, which has nothing to do with fighting terrorism…one could argue that Saddam’s regeme, though brutal, was contained and stable with the minimal cost of maintaining the no-fly zone…if we could tolerate a Castro for four decades, we could have tolerated Saddam…

I already know that, that the Iraquis are incompetent leaders, they just take care of their own.
I’m just waiting for General Betray-us on what’s he’s going to say & report. I know it will be in consistent with what Bush wants to hear but on which part or it could be all of what we already heard from Bush.
I also know that Ambassador Cook already cook what he needs to say, in accordance with Bush, otherwise both men won’t get the promotion that they have.

I just want to know where all the money is going? Most people over there don’t have jobs and can’t afford food. How much money is going to buy weapons on the black market?

We knew this a long time ago, Thats why we put Saddam in place. Cheney even said
it himself back in “94″.

Incompetence is the key to the planning and execution of the war by incompetent leaders. The purpose was greed and oil profits by Bush cronies and Cheney plus Haliburton. Should I say more. That’s why it was’nt plan right. They went after the money right away. Haliburton with billions & billions of dollars in no-bid contract award at the expense of soldiers and marines lives.

It took 4 1/2 years to conclude that Iraqi “leaders” are “unable to govern effectively?” Of course, we can put a positive spin on this, Dana Perino style, and say that’s 2 1/2 years less than the ineffective leader that occupies the White House. Dana, did I take the words right out of your mouth?

It took intelligence to figure this out?

“Gee…who coulda’ seen this coming before we went into Iraq? Not a single Republican in America, apparently…”
Seems to me that there were a couple of people with “D”‘s in their title who voted for the war resolution: Baucus (D-MT, Bayh (D-IN), Biden (D-DE), Cantwell (D-WA)
Carnahan (D-MO)
Carper (D-DE)
Cleland (D-GA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Daschle (D-SD)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Edwards (D-NC)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hollings (D-SC)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Miller (D-GA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Torricelli (D-NJ)
And that’s just the Senate. And all the same rationale for the war were said before as well as after President Bush took office, by BOTH sides of the aisle. Oh, and a Congress with only an 18% approval rating telling another government they are failing the people? Then they blame the President for their approval rating? If that is true, why not the reverse?

Yes the scum in the Whitehouse must have been cherry-picking Intel…mmmm..”One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.”
–President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
“Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.”
–Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
“[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.”
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
– Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
-Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
“The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.” — Bill Clinton in 1998
Clarke said U.S. intelligence does not know how much of the substance was produced at El Shifa or what happened to it. But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to El Shifa’s current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts, and the National Islamic Front in Sudan.
Given the evidence presented to the White House before the airstrike, Clarke said, the president “would have been derelict in his duties if he didn’t blow up the facility.”
“The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world.
The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government — a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people.”
President Clinton
Oval Office Address to the American People
December 16, 1998
Regime change in Iraq has been official US policy since 1998:
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (sponsored by Bob Kerrey, John McCain, and Joseph Lieberman, and signed into law by President Clinton) states:
“It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.”
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
Either you picked the wrong scum, or maybe you have a memory block of anything that happened before 2000. I could go on if you like, with dozens of examples showing that there was a belief in Washington that not only did Saddam Hussein have WMD’s, but that he harbored Al Qaeda, well before President Bush took Office.