Shifting Needed Resources from Afghanistan to Iraq

Published: August 12, 2007, 3:43 am

Tags: in the news, george bush, iraq, terrorism

The New York Times has a lengthy article on how the war in Afghanistan went bad. This is one section from the article on shifting of resources from Afghanistan to Iraq: In October 2002, Robert Grenier, a former director of the C.I.A.'s counterintelligence center, visited the new Kuwait City headquarters of Lt. Gen David McKiernan, who was already planning the Iraq invasion. Meeting in a sheet metal warehouse, Mr. Grenier asked General McKiernan what his intelligence needs would be in Iraq. The answer was simple. They wanted as much as they could get, Mr. Grenier said.Throughout late 2002 and early 2003, Mr. Grenier said in an interview, the best experienced, most qualified people who we had been using in Afghanistan shifted over to Iraq, including the agency's most skilled counterterrorism specialists and Middle East and paramilitary operatives. That reduced the United States' influence over powerful Afghan warlords who were refusing to turn over to the central

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