Cooking the intelligence, again
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
07/19/07
One of the more memorable and revealing statements explaining the nature of the Bush administration buildup to the invasion of Iraq was offered in September 2002 by then White House chief of staff Andrew Card. ‘From a marketing point of view,’ he said, ‘you don’t introduce new products in August.’ Five years later, a period longer than the Civil War and World War II, the administration is preparing to present its case for continuing the surge in Iraq. But rather than waiting for September, when Gen. David Petraeus is scheduled to deliver his report, the administration has moved up the marketing to July. The familiar props are rolled out, like the well-worn and peeling painted backdrop for a production of a traveling Victorian theatrical troupe, and members of the audience are expected to watch with rapt fascination, as though they had never seen this show before. The negative response to the preview does not alter the same old script...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/19/bush_iraq/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
by Sidney Blumenthal
07/19/07
One of the more memorable and revealing statements explaining the nature of the Bush administration buildup to the invasion of Iraq was offered in September 2002 by then White House chief of staff Andrew Card. ‘From a marketing point of view,’ he said, ‘you don’t introduce new products in August.’ Five years later, a period longer than the Civil War and World War II, the administration is preparing to present its case for continuing the surge in Iraq. But rather than waiting for September, when Gen. David Petraeus is scheduled to deliver his report, the administration has moved up the marketing to July. The familiar props are rolled out, like the well-worn and peeling painted backdrop for a production of a traveling Victorian theatrical troupe, and members of the audience are expected to watch with rapt fascination, as though they had never seen this show before. The negative response to the preview does not alter the same old script...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/19/bush_iraq/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
rudkla - 19. Jul, 18:08
