{"id":158,"date":"2003-11-13T03:02:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T08:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/cia_report\/"},"modified":"2003-11-13T03:02:55","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T08:02:55","slug":"cia_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/cia_report\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knows how accurate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,1083847,00.html\">this estimate<\/a> is, but if it&#8217;s anywhere close this is bad news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House yesterday drew up emergency plans to accelerate the transfer of power in Iraq after being shown a devastating CIA report warning that the guerrilla war was in danger of escalating out of US control.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nOne military intelligence assessment now estimates the insurgents&#8217; strength at 50,000. Analysts cautioned that such a figure was speculative, but it does indicate a deep-rooted revolt on a far greater scale than the Pentagon had led the administration to believe.<br \/>\nAn intelligence source in Washington familiar with the CIA report described it as a &#8220;bleak assessment that the resistance is broad, strong and getting stronger&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;It says we are going to lose the situation unless there is a rapid and dramatic change of course,&#8221; the source said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>50,000<\/i> insurgents?  Wow.<br \/>\nThe flypaper idea won&#8217;t be such a good plan if the flies overrun the paper.  Things are going to get ugly if we don&#8217;t get the Iraqi people to behave as though they have a personal stake establishing a stable government.  And the Coalition Provisional Authority hasn&#8217;t made acceptable progress in that direction.<br \/>\nHopefully the administration&#8217;s latest plan will make more headway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/cia_report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to CIA Report\"><p>Who knows how accurate this estimate is, but if it&#8217;s anywhere close this is bad news: The White House yesterday drew up emergency plans to accelerate the transfer of power in Iraq after being shown a devastating CIA report warning that the guerrilla war was in danger of escalating out of US control. . . [&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-158","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\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}