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CIA Warned Bush Before War About Post-War Dangers

HeadlineSep 28, 2004

The New York Times is reporting that the CIA’s National Intelligence Council warned President Bush in two classified reports in January 2003 that an invasion of Iraq would increase support for political Islam and would result in a deeply divided Iraqi society prone to violent internal conflict. The existence of these two classified reports had not been previously disclosed and offer new proof that the President was warned before the invasion that the Iraq invasion could lead to destabilize the region. The report was written by the same group that wrote the recent classified National Intelligence Estimate that predicted Iraq could face a civil war if the security situation doesn‚t improve. Bush recently dismissed the CIA report describing the conclusions of the reports as “guesses” by the CIA on the situation.

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