Excellent Article: "Our Troops Are Dying for Sycophants"

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Our Troops Are Dying for Sycophants
by Paul Craig Roberts

January 20, 2005

...The plan to invade Iran is bizarre from start to finish. The Pentagon denies the plan or most of it. Who do you believe, an administration recognized all over the world as a collection of pathological liars, or Seymour Hersh, a reliable investigative reporter?

Hersh writes that Bush administration insiders told him of the plan in hopes that getting the word out would put a halt to the insanity. If you think "cakewalk" in Iraq was delusion, read Hersh’s account of the Iran plan in the New Yorker.

The neocons have set it up so that the Pentagon can do all the dirty stuff that the CIA is prevented by law from doing. This shields illegal acts from oversight and accountability. Will no one stop these dangerous fools?

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Being an administration that protects delusion with sycophancy, Bush operatives have cleared knowledgeable people out of the State Department and CIA, just as they cleared out the generals who predicted correctly that Iraq was not going to go according to the cakewalk plan.


The author is John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review, and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He is the co-author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

More at
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts90.html

[txaslftist]

1. I keep tellin' folks to check out Lew Rockwell...

It's chock full of good articles.

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2. what 4 MORE YEARS really means

[Disturbed]

3. Exit Plan?

There never was one. The U.S. Govt. is nearing completion of 14 U.S. Military bases in Iraq and the largest Embassy on the planet. The U.S. presence will be in Iraq until the oil is depleted.