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Report: White House Ignored CIA’s Iraq Warnings

HeadlineOct 13, 2005

A newly released CIA study on Iraq has concluded that the White House ignored a pre-war CIA assessment warning of major chaos in Iraq after the removal of Saddam Hussein. The report found that policymakers within the Bush administration worried more about making the case for the war — particularly the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction — than planning for the aftermath.

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