Jim Hoagland has a tantalizing but not very specific column in the Washington Post about the CIA's role in the war. He calls the March 19 "decapitation" strike an intelligence success, and overestimation of support in the south an intelligence failure. OK, so that much is obvious. But he also writes, without getting into much detail:
The people the CIA can buy and control are unlikely to contribute much to the democracy Bush has promised Iraq. With the CIA's complicit backing, they will in fact bar the road to that outcome if Bush's commitment wavers even slightly.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
8:47 PM
