Fall 2002 ... Iraq. Fall 2007 ... Iran.

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Shifting Targets: The Administration’s Plan for Iran
by Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker
October 8, 2007

“They’re moving everybody to the Iran desk,” one recently retired C.I.A. official said. “They’re dragging in a lot of analysts and ramping up everything. It’s just like the fall of 2002”—the months before the invasion of Iraq, when the Iraqi Operations Group became the most important in the agency. He added, “The guys now running the Iranian program have limited direct experience with Iran. In the event of an attack, how will the Iranians react? They will react, and the Administration has not thought it all the way through.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_hersh