Pre-war intelligence: What was disregarded

Murry Waas blasts yet another hole into the administration’s claims about Saddam’s WMD capabilities.

William Buckley on Iraq: “It Didn’t Work”

Conservative standard bearer William F. Buckley, Jr. has a column up at the National Review Online in which he declares, “One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. . . .”.

I wonder if Bill O’Reilly will call Buckley a traitor. I wonder if Ann Coulter will paint Buckley as a terrorist sympathizer.

A fresh look at what went wrong with Iraq

Former National Intelligence Office for the Near East and South Asia for the CIA, Paul Pillar, has an in-depth piece up at Foreign Affairs breaking down the various aspects how we got to where we are in Iraq. Worth the time to get through.