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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (550500)	3/11/2004 12:17:15 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

....From May 2002 until February 2003, I observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages of the neoconservative capture of the policy-intelligence nexus in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. This seizure of the reins of U.S. Middle East policy was directly visible to many of us working in the Near East South Asia policy office, and yet there seemed to be little any of us could do about it. I saw a narrow and deeply flawed policy favored by some executive appointees in the Pentagon used to manipulate and pressurize the traditional relationship between policymakers in the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies. I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president. While this commandeering of a narrow segment of both intelligence production and American foreign policy matched closely with the well-published desires of the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party, many of us in the Pentagon, conservatives and liberals alike, felt that this agenda, whatever its flaws or merits, had never been openly presented to the American people. Instead, the public story line was a fear-peddling and confusing set of messages, designed to take Congress and the country into a war of executive choice, a war based on false pretenses, and a war one year later Americans do not really understand. That is why I have gone public with my account..... salon.com Del

To: PROLIFE who wrote (550500)	3/11/2004 5:50:01 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Here is what Veterans and current Servicemen REALLY think about Kerry: >Consider the voting record of Massachusetts' John Kerry, the most liberal Senator in Washington, with a record worse than that of either Ted Kennedy or Hillary Clinton): > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill every aircraft carrier under construction > > >since 1988 > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the Ageis antiaircraft system > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the F-15 Strike Eagle > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the Block 60 F-16 > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the P-3 Orion upgrade > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the B-1 bomber > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the B-2 bomber > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the Patriot antimissile system > > > > > > --Kerry voted to kill the FA-18 fighter jet > > > > > > --Kerry voted to Kill the F117 fighter jet > > > > > > --In short, Kerry voted to kill every military appropriation for >the > > >development and deployment of every weapons systems since he became a > > >senator, in 1988, not to mention battle armor for all our ground troops. > > > > > > If Kerry should become president, our Army apparently will be > > >composed of naked men and women (what fun!) running around with sticks >and clubs. > > > > > > Kerry also voted to kill all antiterrorism activities for every > > >agency of the U.S. government and cut funding of the FBI by 60%, the CIA >by 80%, and the NSA by 80%, > > > > > > But Kerry's killer instinct disappeared when the United >Nations' beggars stopped by the U.S. Senate to rattle their tin cups. > > > > > > On those days, Kerry voted to increase our funding for U.N > > >operations by 800%. > Ain't peace wonderful? > >James A. Blackwell, III, GS-13 >Counsel AFCA/JA