We'll be greeted as liberators

USATODAY.com - Prewar intelligence predicted Iraqi insurgency

As the insurgency has intensified, so has the scrutiny of the White House over warnings it received before the war that predicted the instability. An examination of prewar intelligence on the possibility of postwar violence and of the administration's response shows:

• Military and civilian intelligence agencies repeatedly warned prior to the invasion that Iraqi insurgent forces were preparing to fight and that their ranks would grow as other Iraqis came to resent the U.S. occupation and organize guerrilla attacks.

• The war plan put together by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Army Gen. Tommy Franks discounted these warnings. Rumsfeld and Franks anticipated surrender by Iraqi ground forces and a warm welcome from civilians.

• The insurgency began not after the end of major combat in May 2003 but at the beginning of the war, yet Pentagon officials were slow to identify the enemy and to grasp how serious a threat the guerrilla attacks posed.

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The Bush administration is the worst, ever. Period. They have broken every world record for incompetence, irresponsibility, malfeasance, prevarication, sliminess, and arrogance.

What the f*** were they thinking?!?! Oh, right, I must be living in that reality-based world. We're an empire now, we make our own reality... NOT!

Maybe I've just been having a bad dream. Someone pinch me. This can't be real... people can't honestly be serious about voting for these idiots?! Four more years of this shit?