Calling the 'cleaner' - like Harvey Keitel, who has both played a 'cleaner' and
become one in real life, Zbigniew Brzezinski now moves in to rectify the mess.
"The present policy - justified by falsehoods, pursued with unilateral arrogance, blinded by self-delusion, and stained by sadistic excesses - cannot be corrected with a few hasty palliatives."
posted by troutfishing
on May 30, 2004 -
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The severed foot : "The force of the blast propelled this severed foot over a high wall, into the yard of an unoccupied house." - In Iraq, has the US seized something similar to the West bank or the Gaza strip (but the size and population of California) in which
"The light at the end of the tunnel" casts a wan, pallid light over a future in which such events will seem routine ?
posted by troutfishing
on Oct 30, 2003 -
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Cooked intel revolts spooks - Spooks revolt : elements of the US intelligence community are between
outrage and open revolt, and Veterans for Intelligence Sanity, a group of ex - CIA professionals led by Ray McGovern, a 27 year veteran of the CIA who used to brief George Bush Sr., has called for Dick Cheney's resignation in an open letter to GW Bush, reports Nick Kristoff.
"You may not realize the extent of the current ferment within the intelligence community and particularly the CIA" they have warned Mr. Bush.
At the heart of the matter is the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans (OSP) under the leadership of Abram Shulsky.
Meanwhile, "It's like, duh, the net doesn't forget. Get it?" :
a blogger compiles a chronological list of Bush Administration statements on Iraq's WMD's - from
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." (George W. Bush
Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003) to
"They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer." (Donald Rumsfeld, Remarks to Council on Foreign Relations, May 27, 2003) and
"U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons of mass destruction. (Condoleeza Rice, Reuters Interview, May 12, 2003) Also in above link: scroll to bottom for memorandum to GW Bush.
posted by troutfishing
on Jul 15, 2003 -
105 comments
