The Washington based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIC) said on Wednesday that America is facing increasingly deadly attacks in Iraq because it has failed to honestly assess facts on the ground.
Anthony H. Cordsman writes in his report for the Washington based Center for Strategic and International Studies, among other things, that:
"As late as July 2004, the Administration's senior spokesmen still seemed to live in a
fantasyland in terms of their public announcements, perception of the growing Iraqi
hostility to the use of Coalition forces, and the size of the threat."
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Meanwhile the Brussel's based International Crisis Group said:
The brussels report goes on to make various suggestions to the United States regarding a change in strategy, while similtaneously taking a not-so-thinly veiled shot at Secretary Rumsfeld:
"Washington has to realise: you occupy the Iraq you have, not the Iraq you might wish to have later", says Robert Malley, Director of Crisis Group's Middle East/North Africa Program.
With each passing day it is becoming increasingly clear why portraits of George W. Bush using monkeys to form his image are selling for $3500 and being projected on a billboard in Manhattan using contributions from anonymous donors.