Ex-CIA analyst criticizes Iraq war

[seemslikeadream]

By Sam Kusic
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, January 26, 2005


Declaring war against Iraq was a poor idea, a former CIA political analyst told a crowd of college students and local residents Monday evening.
Stephen Pelletiere addressed an audience at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, telling them that the United States likely will be stuck fighting a poorly conceived war that it can't afford long term.

Pelletiere, who holds a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of "America's Oil Wars." He served as the CIA's senior policy analyst on Iraq throughout the Iran-Iraq war and, in 1988, became a senior research professor at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle. He headed a 1991 Army investigation into how the Iraqis would fight a war against the United States.

Pelletiere studied Arabic for a year in Cairo and is the author of four books on Iraq.

He said the Bush administration is corrupt in that it has put its self-aggrandizement ahead of the needs of the country. The administration also has refused to admit to its ineptitude, he said.

"Bush is tarred with both," he said.

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[underpants]

1. Yeah yeah another naysayer only spreading hate and hurting the President

/sarcasm off

[TexasLawyer]

2. And why does this guy

hate freedom and liberty so much?

[MidwestTransplant]

8. He hates America

[DS1]

7. When was ~your~ sarcasm ever on? You gelatinous lout!

:D

[jhain]

3. not LBN

just another rat from the ship

[LeahD]

4. Excellent article to E-mail to others! n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. This guy was on this in 2002-2003

When the only "mainstream" guy speaking out was Ramsey Clark.


"According to one wire service report, Colin Powell spent the best part of three days closeted in secure rooms at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, just outside Washington, picking the eyes out of the "mounds of classified material" for his UN presentation.

But one man who spent eight years as the CIA's senior political analyst on Iraq, Stephen Pelletiere, watched the results of Colin Powell's efforts today with a sceptical eye."


A sane voice of reason from the beginning.

[DS1]

6. A Smedley Butler for modern times

And if you don't know who Smedley Butler is, look up "War is a racket".

[underpants]

9. I like my gelatinous lout with some smedley butter on the side

/smart a** off

[struggle4progress]

10. kick