Iraq memo 'bombshell' to be released tomorrow

[wyldwolf]

The 3,000-word story, embargoed until Tuesday but obtained by E&P today, is based on a "closely held" memo purportedly written by a U.S. government official detailed to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). It was provided to writer Jason Vest by "a Western intelligence official." The memo offers a candid assessment of Iraq's bleak future -- as a country trapped in corruption and dysfunction -- and portrays a CPA cut off from the Iraqi people after a "year's worth of serious errors."

The article is titled, "Fables of Reconstruction," with a subhed, "A Coalition memo reveals that even true believers see the seeds of civil war in the occupation of Iraq."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000491093

[lectrobyte]

1. Fables of Reconstruction? Things that make you go hmmm.

I guess we are all Feeling Gravity's Pull now.

[FlashHarry]

3. Maybe they'll say "I'm Sorry."

Whoops. Wrong album...

I'm sure they're up to their eyes in maps and legends, though.

[Guaranteed]

5. Hmmm...must be before my time...

Sounds like a helluva memo, though.

[FlashHarry]

6. See here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002UW0/qid=1082431362/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl15/102-4482372-4356120?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

[Renew Deal]

10. There is a blog called Fables of Reconstruction

http://mithras.blogs.com/blog/

[lectrobyte]

7. The Topic is 1980's R.E.M. albums and song titles

and sadly, they were on to something with that "Jefferson, I think we're lost..."

[FlashHarry]

9. Ah... Jefferson Holt. A real southern gentleman.

[KharmaTrain]

20. Talk About The Passion...

Now I've got REM all over my head...but not a bad thing.

[JPJones]

19. They shouldn't have shown Bandar the maps

and legends.

Bush is selling faith on the 'Go Tell Crusade'.

Woodward's out and running about, talking to the street.

Old Man Bushey wants to be a sign painter
First he's got to learn to read

When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door

Stay off that highway, word is it's not so safe
The grasses that hide the greenback
The amber waves of gain again
The amber waves of gain

Colin built a bridge...Cheney tore it down
At least it's something you've left behind
Like Kohoutek, you were gone

[Renew Deal]

2. Are these guys credible?

How did you find this?

[Atman]

4. E&P is very credible

It is a trade journal of the print media, and has spoken very harshly of newspapers for not doing their job during the run up to war. This is not a small-time operation. Very respected in its field.

[salin]

12. Vest is very credible.

expert on the middle east, with far reaching contacts into the intelligence (military and professional) ranks.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. Here's Vest credentials

Vest is an experienced investigative reporter who is currently senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has worked on staff at U.S. News and & World Report and The Washington Post, written for The Atlantic Monthly, and was named as an "Unsung Hero of Washington Journalism" by American Journalism Review in 2002.



Google his name and you'll get about 15,000 hits on mainstream sources

[Michael Harrington]

18. By the end of a couple of days...

It'll be "extreme left winger" (their co-favorite, along with "disgruntled former employee.")

And you can bet Judy and/or Paula will sit there nodding and let them get away with it.

[TacticalPeek]

15. Atrios has it.

"Coming Soon"

Eschaton

Buncha comments.

[Dark]

8. Hopefully

this will be the requisite impetus for our vacating Iraq and passing it to the United Nations. Only that institution can save Iraq from a complete dichotomy between its people and the resulting conflagration of violence which would be the inevitable of result.

[aquart]

11. I've read that Iraq is not thrilled with the UN.

Something about the Oil for Food program.

[revcarol]

13. Yup. We made them the enforcers of that coercive program that

denied many medicine, food and technology that could have saved their lives. BUT they do realize that it was the U. S. behind the U. N. that was doing the dirty work, like not allowing chemotheraphy drugs in to treat leukemia that would have probably been cured with those drugs. They were VERY upset when the U. N. pulled out after their headquarters were attacked.So a mixed bag.

But if the U. S. is OUT in every way, and the U. N. is in charge and gets the Iraqis themselves,Africans and other Arab and Muslim countries involved helping,probably this can be overcome.

[Gloria]

16. Holbrooke on Charlie Rose a while back said that international

troops should be under the command of ....Norway...because Norway had good relations and was trusted by Iraq and Iraqis...

Holbrooke said point blank--NO BLUE HELMETS ...in other words, NO UN...because the UN is not liked at all by Iraqis....

[LunaC]

17. Provided by "a Western intelligence official."

Here it comes, folks.....the CIA-type spooks are starting their Revenge Campaign against the neocons. They've got to be damn sick and tired of being made the Scapegoat time and time again by the Bush* Regime. I've been waiting for the "leakage" to begin!