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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 08:43 AM
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THE COMING WARS - by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
THE COMING WARS
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.
Issue of 2005-01-24 and 31
Posted 2005-01-17
George W. Bush’s reëlection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term. The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. This process is well under way.

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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 09:17 AM
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1. Job well done, Hersch.
I saw the talking head circuit last night and Hersch's report was spot on. The military experts were aghast that the information was leaked out and said that it probably came from some disgruntled employee from the CIA because Porter Goss is irrating a lot of them.
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oc2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 10:07 AM
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2. amazing, scary, and probably 100% true.....but does anyone care?

yeah, thats right. so what.

51% of the people do not care, and probably believe the Iranians should be bombed on a monthly basis.

'WMD's? we dont need no stinkin WMD's'
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