The True Believer

The former senior official said that after the election he made a lengthy inspection visit to Iraq and reported his findings to Bush in the White House: “I said to the President, ‘We’re not winning the war.’ And he asked, ‘Are we losing?’ I said, ‘Not yet.’ ” The President, he said, “appeared displeased” with that answer.“I tried to tell him,” the former senior official said. “And he couldn’t hear it.”

Chilling testimony reported by Seymour Hersh.