This is in stark contradiction to public statements made by the Bush administration who blamed much of the insurgency on "  loyalists of the Saddam regime who seek to regain power " or " foreigners who have traveled to Iraq to spread fear and chaos " and insisted as late as Ma  2005 that the insurgency is "  in the last throes  "   . "Frankly, senior officials simply weren't ready to pay attention to analysis that didn't conform to their own optimistic scenarios,"
<meaning-changed> This is in stark contradiction to public statements made by the Bush administration who blamed much of the insurgency on "  loyalists of the Saddam regime who seek to regain power " or " foreigners who have traveled to Iraq to spread fear and chaos " and insisted as late as Ma  2005 that the insurgency is "  in the last throes  "   . "Frankly, senior officials simply weren't ready to pay attention to analysis that didn't conform to their own optimistic scenarios,"
This is in stark contradiction to public statements made by the Bush administration who blamed much of the insurgency on " loyalists of the Saddam regime who seek to regain power " or " foreigners who have traveled to Iraq to spread fear and chaos " and insisted as late as Ma 2005 that the insurgency is " in the last throes " Hutchings said that from early 2003 on the intelligence reports reflected that there were "signs of incipient civil war" . "Frankly, senior officials simply weren't ready to pay attention to analysis that didn't conform to their own optimistic scenarios,"