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To: tejek who wrote (268006)	1/12/2006 3:28:51 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572372

Re: The Pentagon is made up of bureaucrats. Bureaucrats get real attached to their jobs. If a president tells them to do something or not do something, they will do it or not do it whether they like it or not. Let's put it the other way around: The Beltway is made up of politicians. Politicians get real attached to their jobs. If the bureaucracy (military, intelligence,...) tells them to do something or not do something, they will do it or not do it whether they like it or not. Re: I've noticed at times in your posts that you tend to share the paranoia of the right. James Carroll doesn't belong to the right: James Carroll was born in Chicago in 1943 and raised in Washington, D.C., where his father was an Air Force general and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He was educated at Washington"s Priory School and at an American high school in Wiesbaden, Germany. He attended Georgetown University before entering St. Paul"s College, the Paulist Fathers" seminary, where he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees. Carroll has been a civil rights worker, an antiwar activist, and a community organizer in Washington and New York. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969. Carroll served as Catholic chaplain at Boston University from 1969 to 1974. During that time, he studied poetry with George Starbuck and published books on religious subjects and a book of poems. [...] Message 22044954 Re: There is conspiracy and danger but... ...that's it. At least we agree on something... Gus