Iraq Bloodshed to Increase In 2007, Bush Was ToldThe Washington Post reveals a tidbit from Bob Woodward’s new book:
Last May. . . the intelligence division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff circulated a secret intelligence estimate predicting that violence will not only continue for the rest of this year in Iraq but increase in 2007.
“Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year,” said the report, which was distributed to the White House, State Department and other intelligence agencies.
The report presented a similarly bleak assessment of oil production, electricity generation and the political situation in Iraq.
Why has the White House failed to share this kind of information with the public? Is it because the Joint Chiefs of Staff tend to “slap together” these reports during the course of an “all-nighter,” for their own partisan “political reasons”?
