New Blog On Iraq and National Security

The Dreyfus Report already has:

+ Iraq might break up into at least three mini-states, scary.

+ Ahmad Chalabi is pretty much admitting that he lied about Iraq's WMD and that Iraqi "defectors" coached by his Iraq National Congress misled intelligence officials.

+ U.S. officials, including the ever more irrelevant Paul Bremer, have pretty much dropped the pretense that they have some idea about what to do next. Iraq is a mess, and maybe one that can't be salvaged by anyone, even the UN.

+ Another Chalabi Scandal. Chalabi-connected cronies—including members of his enormous family—have pocketed contracts from the Pentagon worth more than $400 million.

+ Another Conservative cuts lose on the neo-cons and the lies about Iraq. "When this writer first heard from prominent neoconservatives in April 2002 [note: April 2002!] that war was no longer a question of "if" but "when," the casus belli had little to do with WMDs," he writes. "The Bush administration, they explained, starkly and simply, had decided to redraw the geopolitical map of the Middle East."

De Borchgrave ridicules the idea that democracy would flourish. "The liberation of Iraq, in the neocon scenario, would be followed by a democratic Iraq that would quickly recognize Israel. Umm, not exactly.

He concludes that the "amateur strategists in the neocon camp" knew that "WMDs were weapons of mass deception that became the pretext for the grand design."