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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1168)	1/13/2003 10:49:45 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Rumsfeld didn't offer specifics You know of course that Rumsfeld lies often and thinks that it is in the national interest to do so. Even Republican Senators don't believe him anymore. The Federation of American Scientists has pointed to a startling revelation by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that mainstream media have missed: In remarks during a recent press briefing, Rumsfeld suggested that though the controversial Office of Strategic Influence (OSI) no longer exists in name, its programs are still being carried out. RUMSFELD: "STRATEGIC INFLUENCE" LIVES ON Defense Secretary Rumsfeld last week likened the brewing controversy over the Total Information Awareness program to an earlier dispute over the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence, which critics asserted -- erroneously, according to the Pentagon -- was created to engage in disinformation. As a result of all of the negative publicity, the Office of Strategic Influence was shut down. Or maybe it wasn't. Rumsfeld said last week that only the name has been abandoned. The Office's intended functions are being carried out. "And then there was the Office of Strategic Influence," Rumsfeld reminisced on November 18. "You may recall that. And 'oh my goodness gracious isn't that terrible, Henny Penny the sky is going to fall.' I went down that next day and said fine, if you want to savage this thing, fine, I'll give you the corpse. There's the name. You can have the name, but I'm gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have." See excerpts from Rumsfeld's November 18 media availability: fas.org TP

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1168)	1/13/2003 11:01:42 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

not only do i hold the opinion it is relevant to bin laden and al quaeda, i also think there is a high probability that there is linkage to iraq.. I would be interested to hear what relation you see between invading Iraq and destroying Al-Qaeda, if any. and i am also of the opinion there is a good deal of evidence that our government will not disclose Any reason why you hold that opinion? In a spellbinding presentation, they made the case for a connection between Mideast terrorism, the Murrah bombing - and the attacks on the Twin Towers. Are you suggesting that the US should invade Iraq now because of some "witnesses" who think they saw some Middle Eastern men seven years ago in and around Oklahoma City?