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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (977)	2/6/2004 4:28:55 AM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<<...crimes against humanity... greatest traitor this country has endured..>> Hopefully American majority will not remain opaque to this, and will awaken from the mesmerizing spell of the judeofascists and judeoprotestants mass propaganda. Bushwacko is to appear on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" this Sunday. We'll see what other schemes and lies this Bushwacko has for his conglomerate's profiteering ventures at the expense of future American economic health. For sure, judeofascists have their own agenda for their own tribe and they couldn't care less about America. Americans don't deserve and should not endure one more day of such skumbaag. See also the "missing year" salon.com

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (977)	2/6/2004 8:03:29 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<<...Let me propose that if the Bush administration really wants to find out what went wrong with our pre-war intelligence on Iraq, it should appoint a commission consisting of first-class investigative reporters, including first and foremost the New Yorker magazine's Seymour Hersh and the Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows. These two journalists have, in fact, already told us in damning detail what really went on inside the Bush administration. In several of his New Yorker articles, but particularly "The Stovepipe" (published in the October 27, 2003 issue), Hersh describes the process whereby a pro-war cabal within the administration -- Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Vice President Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and others -- set out to cherry-pick the intelligence tidbits that supported their preconceived plans for war in Iraq. In an equally well-documented Atlantic article in the January/February 2004 issue of that magazine, James Fallows explores why so much went so badly wrong after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Why the looting? Why the continuing guerrilla attacks? Why the failure to bring the mass of the population over to our side, even after the capture of Saddam Hussein? Fallows's answer is that most of what went wrong had long been predicted by non-governmental organizations that tried to work with the Pentagon but whose advice was studiously ignored. Perhaps the most amazing discovery Fallows made with regard to intelligence concerns Sam Gardiner, a retired Air Force colonel who taught for years at the National War College and who compiled a "net assessment" of how Iraq would look after a successful U.S. attack. Not only did Gardiner's predictions regarding the infrastructure prove devastatingly accurate, but his report was compiled entirely on the basis of information freely available on the Internet. No need at all for $30-plus billion worth of intelligence agencies. Of course, Gardiner's warnings went unheeded in large part because the administration was already bent on war and uninterested in anyone else's thoughts, let alone intelligence on the coming "post-war" era in Iraq...>> commondreams.org