Pillar's "Fool's Errand" Dissected

clipped from powerlineblog.com I have no idea how much weight President Bush gave to these intelligence reports. Maybe, by January 2003, he had given up on getting any meaningful input from agencies that were far more interested in protecting their own images and budgets, and perhaps in undermining an administration that did not share their overwhelmingly liberal and Democratic orientation, than in going out on a limb to give the President their best judgment. But, to the extent that President Bush heeded what the Intelligence Council told him in late 2002 and early 2003, it is simply false to say that he disregarded a warning that a war with Iraq would be a “fool’s errand.”

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