{"id":1189,"date":"2004-10-05T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/iraq_reviewed\/"},"modified":"2004-10-05T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T13:28:43","slug":"iraq_reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/iraq_reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, we already knew this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a title=\"CIA review finds no evidence Saddam had ties to Islamic terrorists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realcities.com\/mld\/krwashington\/9836140.htm\">CIA review finds no evidence Saddam had ties to Islamic terrorists<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new CIA assessment undercuts the White House&#8217;s claim that Saddam Hussein maintained ties to al-Qaida, saying there&#8217;s no conclusive evidence that the regime harbored Osama bin Laden associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.<br \/>\nThe CIA review, which U.S. officials said Monday was requested some months ago by Vice President Dick Cheney, is the latest assessment that calls into question one of President Bush&#8217;s key justifications for last year&#8217;s U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=6411916\">Ex-U.S. Governor of Iraq Criticizes Troop Levels<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. intervention in Iraq was hampered early on by a lack of adequate forces and efforts to contain looting after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, according to the former U.S. administrator in Iraq.<br \/>\n&#8220;We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness,&#8221; Paul Bremer said in a speech reported by The Washington Post on Tuesday. &#8220;We never had enough troops on the ground.&#8221;<br \/>\nBremer&#8217;s comments echoed charges by administration critics who argue that the U.S. government failed to plan adequately to maintain security in post-war Iraq, the newspaper said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think Vice President Dick Cheney will be incorporating any of this &#8220;new&#8221; information into his debate preparation?  I vote no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/iraq_reviewed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Iraq Reviewed\"><p>Yeah, we already knew this: &#8220;CIA review finds no evidence Saddam had ties to Islamic terrorists&#8220; A new CIA assessment undercuts the White House&#8217;s claim that Saddam Hussein maintained ties to al-Qaida, saying there&#8217;s no conclusive evidence that the regime harbored Osama bin Laden associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The CIA review, which U.S. officials said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}