NYT Bombshell on Iraq

The NYT today has an article describing the outlook before the invasion of Iraq as follows:

The officials' descriptions portray assessments that are gloomier than the predictions by some administration officials, most notably those of Vice President Dick Cheney. But in general, the warnings about anti-American sentiment and instability appear to have been upheld by events, and their disclosure could prove politically damaging to the White House, which has already had to contend with the disclosure that the National Intelligence Estimate prepared by the council in July presented a far darker prognosis for Iraq through the end of 2005 than Mr. Bush has done in his statements.

Hopefully this will make it more difficult for the Bush Administration to spin their prewar confidence on Iraq. They knew it would be like this, and they went in anyway.