Thursday, March 20, 2003
Along with various resignations of high-level government officials in the U.S. and Britian we have Rand Beers, who is in charge of the National Security Council's anti-terrorist operations. The article give conflicting reasons for his resignation, but it does quote several intelligence officials as saying that they feel cheated by the war with Iraq, as it has diverted resources away from the war on terrorism. A couple of interesting points; first, in the minds of the intelligence community the issue of Iraq and terrorism are _seperate_, thus conflicting with attempts by the Bush administration to characterize the war with Iraq as part of the war on terrorism. Second, there are a limited number of intelligence resources available, and it appears that the war on Iraq seems to be consuming alot of them to the detriment of the rest of the war on terrorism.
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