Spy Agencies Warned of Iraq Resistance

Spy Agencies Warned of Iraq Resistance

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 9, 2003; Page A01


U.S. intelligence agencies warned Bush administration policymakers before the war in Iraq that there would be significant armed opposition to a U.S.-led occupation, according to administration and congressional sources familiar with the reports.

Although general in nature, the sources said, the intelligence agencies' concerns about the degree of resistance U.S. forces would encounter have proved broadly accurate in the months since the ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his inner circle.

Among the threats outlined in the intelligence agencies' reporting was that "Iraqis probably would resort to obstruction, resistance and armed opposition if they perceived attempts to keep them dependent on the U.S. and the West," one senior congressional aide said. The general tenor of the reports, according to a senior administration official familiar with the intelligence, was that the postwar period would be more "problematic" than the war to overthrow Hussein.

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That's why we marched.

Good point...

These lying SOB's!

Don

When "rolling out their brand spanking new product line" they were bound and determined not to let unpleasant facts such as these get in the way of their coveted war. When reports like these surfaced telling them an unpleasant truth they acted like the famed three monkeys immortalized in desktop sculpture everywhere: "See no evil hear no evil and speak no evil" They made the deliberate choice to not tell the American people about what the inevitable costs and consequences of this invasion would likely be. Instead they told us waggy dog stories of flowers and throngs of grateful people who would worship the ground upon which we walked. The evidence for impeachment based on willful deception continues to mount.