FW: Today's Papers: Iraq

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

>The New York Times leads with a scoop: a classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July says that Iraq could descend into civil war by the end of next year--a far more pessimistic outlook than the Bush administration has been pushing publicly. ... Although the Iraqi intelligence estimate in the NYT lead was officially approved by the interim CIA director and other intel chiefs during a July meeting, a NSC [National Security Council] spokesman shamelessly tried to dismiss it. "In the past, including before the war to liberate Iraq, there were many different scenarios that were possible, including the outbreak of civil war," he told the Times. "It hasn't happened. The Iraqi people continue to defy the predictions of pundits and others." Of course, he probably meant to say: pundits, intel agency directors, and others. <

sounds like it's time to cut and run.

JD