Saturday, May 26, 2007

LAT hypes Senate report

The LAT, in a front page article by James Gerstenzang, suggests that Bush ignored warnings from intelligence agencies before the Iraq war. Gerstenzang lists several warnings contained in a report of the Senate Intelligence Committee that, he suggests, accurately predicted the problems that have occurred since the 2003 invasion, like the heightened presence of Al Queda in Iraq, instances of score settling between those who supported Hussein and those who didn't, etc. The committee approved issuance of the report by an 11 to 5 vote with two Republicans joining all the Democrats on the panel in voting for release of the report. This seems like 20 - 20 hindsight and probably cherry-picking as well.