Former CIA Director George Tenet speaks with (l. to r.) Vice President Dick Cheney, then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and President Bush in the Oval Office, October, 2001.
I first flew into Iraq just about the time Jerry Bremer took over as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, or CPA, during the third week of May 2003. I took a helicopter ride with Jerry right over Baghdad. It was daylight. The helicopter door was wide open, and I was looking out as we flew. On the ground, the environment was strikingly permissive, considering that a foreign army had just invaded the capital and deposed...
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