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Post by phil on Oct 31, 2005 16:17:52 GMT -5
OH ! Of course the West made a bundle
during the 8 years that war lasted ...
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Post by strat-0 on Oct 31, 2005 22:56:28 GMT -5
And I think the original border dispute over where some riverbed actually lies is still basically moot. Oh, well!
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Post by Dr. Drum on Nov 6, 2005 7:24:38 GMT -5
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Post by shin on Nov 7, 2005 23:58:46 GMT -5
Much is still to be learned about how intelligence was used and abused in CTEG and OVP. But one story gives a hint of what the historians may find: When I interviewed him several months ago, Powell's former chief of staff Larry Wilkerson recounted the story of a meeting in the White House situation room during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq when policymakers met with top intelligence officials from a number of agencies. After the intelligence officials made their presentations, Douglas Feith "leapt to his feet, pointed to a certain National Intelligence Officer and declared 'You people don't know what you're talking about.' "
Feith had worked for Cheney—together with Scooter Libby—when he was secretary of defense in the administration of George H.W. Bush and, according to former administration sources, was even closer to Rumsfeld than Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was. After that outburst, Feith held up a piece of paper and read aloud an account of al-Qaida's ties with Iraq in the early 1990s. Then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, a man well-known and well-liked in Washington for his gentlemanly manners, looked on, aghast at the scene. Wilkerson told me that after the end of the meeting, he got a copy of the paper and determined it was a newspaper clipping that had been retyped in the vice president's office to be presented as "intelligence." www.slate.com/id/2129686/For some reason the words "public hanging" keep running through my head. I really don't know why.
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