Exposing Bush’s talking-points war

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http://www.antiwar.com/
This is a transcript of an interview aired today on radio
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/13/news-cooper.php

Soldier for the Truth
Exposing Bush’s talking-points war
by Marc Cooper


After two decades in the U.S. Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, now 43, knew her career as a regional analyst was coming to an end when — in the months leading up to the war in Iraq — she felt she was being “propagandized” by her own bosses.

With master’s degrees from Harvard in government and zoology and two books on Saharan Africa to her credit, she found herself transferred in the spring of 2002 to a post as a political/military desk officer at the Defense Department’s office for Near East South Asia (NESA), a policy arm of the Pentagon.

Kwiatkowski got there just as war fever was spreading, or being spread as she would later argue, through the halls of Washington. Indeed, shortly after her arrival, a piece of NESA was broken off, expanded and re-dubbed with the Orwellian name of the Office of Special Plans. The OSP’s task was, ostensibly, to help the Pentagon develop policy around the Iraq crisis.

She would soon conclude that the OSP — a pet project of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld — was more akin to a nerve center for what she now calls a “neoconservative coup, a hijacking of the Pentagon
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This LT COL. was there on the inside collecting the information on what these neocons were doing, she knew, heard and saw a lot from what one could tell the way she spoke on the Radio

On edit: forgot the link where I got the link from

[teryang]

1. Awesome interview

This woman is a hero in my book.

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3. In giving fresh perspective why some of generals who refused were outed

People like Clark and Zinni got pushed away when it became apparent that they were not going to play the game with these fools

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4. Dubya and Rummy copying a page from Joe Stalin's book:

politicizing the high military command.

Thereby weakening the American military, worsening American security. Kerry should call them on this, too.

[librechik]

2. I heard her the other day on ieamericaradio Talk America

She got all emotional and spanked some RWer who called in to poopoo on her experience. She gave him the red ass then apologized for getting so excited about the fact that criminal pirates have stolen our America! Good for her!

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5. Here is a kick for them people who sometimes pick up yesterdays..........

News. Not a crime, somebody just wanted to know about it, so I am giving it a :kick: Now I going back to the dupe, the one with all the posts because I glad some other people also learning about this. see ya at the other thread :hi: