The thing is, even without the NIE and a bunch of experts yelling from the rooftops, anyone with a rudimentary understanding of human nature, nationalism, and history could tell that the Administration line was BS. The Bush Administration: Sacrificing realistic policies for short-term political gain.
If only the two were similar. Drugs and the war on them are like chronic illnesses to our Democracy... we can live with it but we don't like it. This Iraq thing and indeed the entirety of the Bush era has been a shock trauma to our system. Bring out the paddles, it's going to take us a long time to rehab from this.
I know, that he rewards people who get things wrong, so it only makes sense that the folks that got this stuff correct sould be fired.