Walter Pincus reports in the Washington Post:
Two intelligence assessments from January 2003 predicted that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and subsequent U.S. occupation of Iraq could lead to internal violence and provide a boost to Islamic extremists and terrorists in the region, according to congressional sources and former intelligence officials familiar with the prewar studies. ...The assessments were delivered to the White House and to congressional intelligence committees before the war started.
So enough already with the threadbare, lame-ass, not even remotely credible "bad intelligence" excuses. The administration knew that the WMD evidence was dubious, they knew Saddam had no real connections with al Qaeda or 9-11, and they knew the invasion was likely to generate an insurgency and strengthen the jihadist militants; and they told us exactly the opposite on every single count.
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