CIA Director declared Iraq chaos "irreversible" last year
Michael Hayden warned President Bush on November 13, 2006 that the could not be magically altered:
Hayden said "the inability of the government to govern seemsirreversible," adding that he could not "point to any milestone orcheckpoint where we can turn this thing around," according to writtenrecords of his briefing and the recollections of six participants.
"Thegovernment is unable to govern," Hayden concluded. "We have spent a lotof energy and treasure creating a government that is balanced, and itcannot function."
That just about says it right there. To this day, Hayden remains as Bush's CIA Director.
Ironically, the meeting last year between Hayden and Bush happened just after Bush told the Iraq Study Group, "A constitutional order is emerging."
Maybe Bush should have met with the CIA Director before telling what he told to the Iraq Study Group. Even then, the chances are that Bush would not have shared what Hayden told him.
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