No one could have predicted...

...that any presidential administration could be this obtuse, incompetent, and ideologically driven, so full of war-lust that it would ignore stark reality in a headlong rush to soak the middle east in blood.

Analysts' Warnings of Iraq Chaos Detailed - washingtonpost.com

Months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies predicted that it would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Analysts warned that war in Iraq also could provoke Iran to assert its regional influence and "probably would result in a surge of political Islam and increased funding for terrorist groups" in the Muslim world.

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