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September 22, 2004
Conditions: Unknown
QUESTION: Right here, Mr. President, thank you. Why do you think the CIA's assessment of conditions in Iraq are so much at odds with the optimism that you and Prime Minister Allawi are expressing at the moment?

PRESIDENT BUSH: The CIA laid out a -- several scenarios that said, life could be lousy, like [sic] could be okay, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.

whitehouse.gov

Now, clearly the CIA is loaded with dumbasses, that has been established, but it seems a bit odd that they'd just be wildly guessing as to current conditions in Iraq, a country in which we've been conducting a war for 18 months.

"Yeah, we're not really sure what's going on over there. It might be really great or really crappy. There's really no way to tell. It's pretty far away, you know."

Posted by Anthony at September 22, 2004 04:47 PM
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