mimus wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 12:55:08 -0500, VTR wrote:
>
>> Neocons Admit that “War On Terror” Is a Hoax
>>
>> George Wa****ngton’s Blog
>> May 7, 2008
>>
>> Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald
Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and
>> Wesley Clark in admitting that the so-called War on Terror is a hoax.
>>
>> In fact, starting right after 9/11 — at the latest — the goal has
always been to create "regime
>> change" and instability in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and
Lebanon so as to
>> protect Israel.
>
> Your anti-Semitism is plainly completely blinding you to the favored
roles
> of Saudi Arabia, OPEC and OPEC's "secret member" and devoted
collaborator
> in all this, Texas.
>
Saudi Arabians are Semitic people, you can say that western Antisemitism
is the reason for
sup****ting this wars in the Middle east all driven and planned by the
NeoCons. The Saudis are
gullible people. The Neocons work for the interest of the State of Israel.
Official's Key Re****t On Iraq Is Faulted
'Dubious' Intelligence Fueled Push for War
By Walter Pincus and R. Jeffrey Smith
Wa****ngton Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 9, 2007; Page A01
Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith
to buttress the
White House case for invading Iraq included "re****ting of dubious quality
or reliability" that
sup****ted the political views of senior administration officials rather
than the conclusions of
the intelligence community, according to a re****t by the Pentagon's
inspector general.
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802387.html
Feith-Libby Lies Exposed
By Robert Dreyfuss
February 12, 2007
Robert Dreyfuss: Across the political spectrum in Iraq, a
nationalistic bloc is emerging
to challenge the Kurdish and ****ite separatists who have held sway under
US tutelage.
It's Iran in the headlines today, but happily on February 9 we got a
timely reminder of how
brazenly the Bush Administration--along with its neoconservative allies at
The Weekly Standard
and the American Enterprise Institute--trumped up the case for war against
Iraq five years ago.
In a stunning indictment of the Administration's chicanery, Pentagon
Inspector General Thomas
Gimble slammed the super-secret predecessor organizations to the Office of
Special Plans for
"disseminating alternative intelligence *****sments on the Iraq and Al
Qaeda relation****p." Its
actions, Gimble concluded, were "inappropriate," and its conclusions "were
not sup****ted by the
available intelligence." Among the absurdly wrong conclusions reached by
the OSP and its
earlier incarnations--the equally Orwellian-sounding Policy Sup****t Office
and the Policy
Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group--were that a "mature symbiotic
relation****p" existed between
Iraq and Al Qaeda and that Baghdad and Osama bin Laden's terrorists
displayed "cooperation in
all categories." Vice President Cheney used this nonsense to bolster his
dark muttering about
"possible Iraq coordination" with Al Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks.
Make no mistake: The phrase "not sup****ted by the available intelligence"
is merely
bureaucratese for a "lie-filled pile of crap," and that's the most
straightforward way to
describe the intelligence product produced by the OSP, which was run
directly out of the office
of then-Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. Feith, who
was called "the ****ing
stupidest guy on the face of the earth" by Gen. Tommy Franks, is a
hard-core neoconservative
with intimate ties to the Israeli far right. The Inspector General's
re****t chips away at
merely the tip of a gigantic iceberg, a virtual empire of lies that was
owned and operated by
the Defense Department from 9/11 though the start of the Iraq War in March
2003. (For a
complete account of the inner workings of the OSP, see "The Lie Factory,"
by me and Jason Vest,
in the January 2004 edition of Mother Jones.)
At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin
invited Gimble in to
air Feith's dirty laundry. "The Inspector General's re****t is a
devastating condemnation," said
Levin. "These issues are as critical as any I have ever seen." After
drawing out Gimble on his
careful inquiry into Feith's mischief, Levin noted that despite having
interviewed some
seventy-five people for the re****t, there were still many--including at
the White House, the
National Security Council and the Vice President's office--who had somehow
avoided talking to
Gimble. "We're gonna be interviewing a lot of folks, including people who
have refused to talk
to you...including the Chief of Staff of the Vice President."
That "Chief of Staff" would be none other than Feith comrade-in-arms I.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby,
the now-disgraced neocon who is standing trial for perjury for trying to
cover up information
about the Administration's lies and deception over Iraqi WMD four years
ago. Thus, very neatly,
the Inspector General's inquiry dovetails with US Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald's long-running
effort to pull on yet another thread in the Feith-Libby spider web.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Feith was shockingly unrepentant, denying
any and all evidence
that he stacked the deck for war. It was too much even for Chris Wallace,
the show's host, who
seemed incredulous that Feith would deny the obvious. (You can read the
whole transcript here.)
An excerpt:
WALLACE: Okay. Let's talk about it, because the briefing was titled "Iraq
and Al Qaeda Making
the Case," and here are some of the highlights from your PowerPoint
presentation. "Intelligence
indicates cooperation in all categories, mature symbiotic relation****p."
"Some indications of
possible Iraq coordination with Al Qaeda specifically related to 9/11."
And you said an alleged
meeting between 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent in Prague
in April 2001 was a
known contact. Mr. Feith, all of that--all of that was wrong, wasn't it?
FEITH: No, not at all. There was substantial intelligence. I mean,
evidence is a legal term not
really appropriate here. There was a lot of information out there.
Intelligence is very
sketchy, and it's always open to interpretation. On this issue, there were
people who disagreed
about the intelligence and the people in the Pentagon were giving a
critical review. They were
not presenting alternative conclusions. They were presenting a challenge
to the way the CIA was
looking at things and filtering its own information.
WALLACE: I have to tell you, I mean, when I--I mean, I read these as
"mature symbiotic
relation****p," "known contact"--that sure sounds like conclusions.
FEITH: You're plucking language out of a briefing, the thrust of which was
why is the CIA
accounting for information that it had that suggested an Iraq-Al Qaeda
relation****p when the
CIA was excluding that information from its own finished intelligence at
the time. It was a
criticism. It's healthy to criticize the CIA's intelligence. What the
people in the Pentagon
were doing was right. It was good government.
The New York Times, in a scathing editorial ridiculing Feith, also pointed
the finger at
Feith's boss, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz: "Wolfowitz
would feverishly
sketch out charts showing how this Iraqi knew that Iraqi, who was
connected through six more
degrees of separation to terrorist attacks, all the way back to the 1993
World Trade Center
bombing."
After Feith's OSP concocted its cock-and-bull story about Iraq, they had
the temerity to take
it over to the CIA and present it to a team of professional analysts
there. George Tenet, after
listening politely to Feith's team on August 15, 2002, quietly asked his
staff to stick around
after the OSP briefers departed. The CIA and the Defense Intelligence
Agency reviewed Feith's
conclusions (apparently there were some two dozen or more pieces of
"evidence") and promptly
disagreed with more than 50 percent of it, Gimble said. Five days later,
they all met once
again, and the CIA pointedly offered to footnote Feith's re****t with
strident objections of its
own. Feith's team said thanks--and then promptly set up an appointment to
brief the White
House, without so much as adding a single CIA footnote. Needless to say,
that briefing was
widely cited by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and others--and it
was helpfully leaked
to The Weekly Standard, which printed it nearly verbatim. Later, when
asked why he kept
insisting that Iraq and Al Qaeda were allies, Cheney pointed to the Weekly
Standard article to
sup****t his charges!
Bizarre as all this is, it is im****tant to remember that because of these
lies, America went to
war against a country that had never attacked the United States, that had
no weapons of mass
destruction and that had no ties to Al Qaeda or 9/11. As a result,
hundreds of thousands of
Iraqis are dead, along with 3,109 Americans. Not only that, but there is
every reason to
believe that the Administration is once again involved in fabricating
intelligence to justify
its increasingly belligerent stance toward Iran. While Senator Levin keeps
one eye on the
Feith-Libby lies of 2003, let's hope he and the rest of Congress keep the
other on what looks
like additional baloney about Iran. As President Bush himself so
eloquently put it: "Fool me
once, shame on--shame on you. Fool me--you can't get fooled again."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070226/dreyfuss
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