The people with one eye chose not to open them. The intellegence report that warned us about Iraq, before we invaded, was ignored. Sully wonders if anyone read it, but at 229 pages, you probably won't read it either. From the summary at Nationalinterest.org:
"The assessments described the main contours of the mess that was to be, including Iraq’s unpromising and undemocratic political culture, the sharp conflicts and prospect for violence among Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian groups, the Marshall Plan-scale of effort needed for economic reconstruction, the major refugee problem, the hostility that would be directed at any occupying force that did not provide adequate security and public services, and the exploitation of the conflict by Al-Qaeda and other terrorists..."
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