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http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1511357/20051012/index.jhtml?headlines=true&_requestid=332195Snip: <According to a newly published study by former CIA analysts, in the run-up to the Iraq war, the Bush administration ignored warnings that an invasion could result in a divided country that would be plagued by ethnic tensions. Instead of planning more
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rigorously for the aftermath of invasion, the report says, the administration focused its attention on claims that the country had weapons of mass destruction — claims that were quickly proven false.
The allegations, detailed in a USA Today story, come in a report written by a team of four former CIA analysts led by former deputy CIA director Richard Kerr.
"In an ironic twist, the policy community was receptive to technical intelligence (the weapons program), where the analysis was wrong (see "U.S. Intelligence Was 'Dead Wrong' About WMDs, Report Says"), but apparently paid little attention to intelligence on cultural and political issues (post-Saddam Iraq), where the analysis was right," according to the report.
The report was commissioned by then-CIA director George Tenet after the invasion of Iraq, just as he was wrapping up his tenure at the agency in July 2004. It is based on highly classified intelligence information and is the only one of three such reports that has been released in declassified form, according to USA Today. The full report is in the current issue of Studies in Intelligence, a CIA quarterly read mostly by people in the intelligence community. >
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