Intelligence Puts Rationale For War on Shakier Ground

The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.
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Michael Abramowitz

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