Soldier of Truth

[mac2]

This is sure a breath taking article by a military person that served in the Pentagon. Here's the "insider tell all story" about the Bush goal for Iraq war. surprise..it's a woman..a well educated one at that.

Link: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/13/news-cooper.php

"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.”

Though a lifelong conservative, Kwiatkowski found herself appalled as the radical wing of the Bush administration, including her superiors in the Pentagon planning department, bulldozed internal dissent, overlooked its own intelligence and relentlessly pushed for confrontation with Iraq.

Deeply frustrated and alarmed, Kwiatkowski, still on active duty, took the unusual step of penning an anonymous column of internal Pentagon dissent that was posted on the Internet by former Colonel David Hackworth, America’s most decorated veteran.

As war inevitably approached, and as she neared her 20-year mark in the Air Force, Kwiatkowski concluded the only way she could viably resist what she now terms the “expansionist, imperialist” policies of the neoconservatives who dominated Iraq policy was by retiring and taking up a public fight against them."

[tibbiit]

1. Important read

Thank you for posting:)

snip

Let?s clarify this. Talking points are generally used to deal with media. But you were a desk officer, not a politician who had to go and deal with the press. So are you saying the Office of Special Plans provided you a schematic, an outline of the way major points should be addressed in any report or analysis that you developed regarding Iraq, WMD or terrorism?

That?s right. And these did not follow the intent, the content or the accuracy of intelligence . . .



They were political . . .

They were political, politically manipulated. They did have obviously bits of intelligence in them, but they were created to propagandize. So we inside the Pentagon, staff officers and senior administration officials who might not work Iraq directly, were being propagandized by this same Office of Special Plans.

tib

[Sentath]

2. Ellsberg was on NPR

Daniel Ellsberg said good things about this the other day.

I missed the majority of what was said, but I think he implied that what she has done is as important and more timely than what he did.

{rlg}

[dw]

3. Here's the NPR audio report....

(third story from the top)

[mac2]

4. Thanks for that news clip

They have all sorts of information that they planned the intelligence on Iraq. What do they say...ah...ah...who knows whose right? What would one do with this information.

Hey...this is intelligence to attack another country. This is not a story of adultery of your neighbor down the street.

I have faith in the career intelligence people to tell the right story. This President was told by many nations (who have their own intelligence) that the WMD would not be an immediate threat to us. He was in a hurry..obviously so the UN wouldn't go in. Bush/Blair/Sharon had an agenda for the area. DA!!

You can't control what the President (Cheney) would do with it. Ignore it and maybe even plan it.

The person making the intelligence decisions were Neo Cons? Seems so.

Outrageous they get away with this.

[mac2]

5. They're both patriots

[JoFerret]

6. Kick

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[Paradise]

7. Thanks! n/t

[PATRICK]

8. "Hijacking" has been the byword

for the past several years. You name it. Anything of truth or value has been hijacked by the worst elements trying to escape history.

What hasn't been hijacked? Along with the cruelest joke of the hijackings of 911 enabling even worse.