Surge in Iraq: Another false promise
Independent Institute
by Charles Pena
01/31/07
Former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who was the Pentagon’s biggest advocate for taking the country to war in Iraq and claimed that Iraqi oil revenues pay for post-invasion reconstruction, is now the president of the World Bank. Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, who headed up the ill-fated Office of Special Plans responsible for cooking the books about the threat posed by Iraq and was a champion for Iraqi con artist Ahmed Chalabi, is a distinguished practitioner in national security policy at Georgetown University. Bill Kristol, the don of the neoconservative Weekly Standard, has been named a columnist for Time magazine. And Thomas Friedman — who led the liberal hawk charge into Iraq, often alongside Bill Kristol — is still a fixture on the pages of the New York Times. If any of these people were your stockbroker and told you to bet the ranch on Enron in late 2001, would you still be letting them give you financial advice?
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1902
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Douglas+Feith
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalabi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Kristol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+Friedman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Pena
by Charles Pena
01/31/07
Former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who was the Pentagon’s biggest advocate for taking the country to war in Iraq and claimed that Iraqi oil revenues pay for post-invasion reconstruction, is now the president of the World Bank. Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, who headed up the ill-fated Office of Special Plans responsible for cooking the books about the threat posed by Iraq and was a champion for Iraqi con artist Ahmed Chalabi, is a distinguished practitioner in national security policy at Georgetown University. Bill Kristol, the don of the neoconservative Weekly Standard, has been named a columnist for Time magazine. And Thomas Friedman — who led the liberal hawk charge into Iraq, often alongside Bill Kristol — is still a fixture on the pages of the New York Times. If any of these people were your stockbroker and told you to bet the ranch on Enron in late 2001, would you still be letting them give you financial advice?
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1902
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Douglas+Feith
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalabi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Kristol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+Friedman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Pena
rudkla - 1. Feb, 15:49
