With all the DSM/Impeach talk, let's not forget Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski

[Roland99]

She's been very vocal for the last couple of years describing the "manipulation" of intelligence in the OSP.


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/22/143233

I got a clear sense that what we were doing in The Pentagon, or what the neoconservative group was doing in The Pentagon as far as a middle east policy was to not just fabricate falsehoods for the Defense Department, but to push that into the mainstream of American media.

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The main thing that happened was the influence of Ahmed Chalabi. In the office that I was at, I saw Ahmed Chalabi. He would come in to visit Bill Luti. There was a military officer working in the Office of Special Plans whose job was described to me as the Ahmed Chalabi's handler. He would set up meetings downtown. They traveled to London to meet with members of the I.N.C. Ahmed was a key source of a lot of the stories that Saddam Hussein had vast quantities of undetermined weapons of mass destruction, that he was going to either use directly against U.S. interests or give to terrorists who would do the same thing.

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We are not too worried about dictators as long as they're on our side and they do what we tell them. Democracy is not the reason we went in there. The main reason is geo strategic regional dominance, which is the one that relates to energy supplies. Another reason for this invasion-occupation at the time that we did it, had to do with the pressure to lift sanctions. There was a huge pressure building to lift sanctions on Iraq. Had sanctions been lifted or partially lifted, Iraq could have been filled with Europeans, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, all kinds of folks. No American or British folks, but we and the U.K. had been bombing Iraq for 12 years. Had sanctions been lifting with Saddam Hussein still in charge, we would have gotten no contracts and no opportunities to invest in Iraq, but furthermore, we would have lost the ability to attack Iraq at any time, because Iraq would have been filled with foreigners. The other aspect to me is a smaller one, but it has to do with Saddam Hussein's decision in November of 2000 to switch to the Euro for all of his oil for food exports. He had been on the dollar for decades. He decided to switch to the euro. He had gone into full production of his oil capability and had he continued to trade oil on the Euro and not the Dollar, this would have actually had a financial impact on the United States in that Central Banks in the world would be more favorable towards the Euro and less to the Dollar.

[downwitbush]

1. good for her

too bad she's the only one with the guts to tell the truth

[Just Me]

2. She should DEFINITELY be a part of that hearing!!!!

She has first-hand info about the way the neoCONs operated!!!

I hope she, at least, knows about what's going on. I'd be surprised if she didn't know.

[Roland99]

3. Ayup...she knows

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski111.html

[Blue Belle]

4. I agree... sh should not be forgotten.

I think she should be doing interviews on the liberal radio shows (at least). I emailed Randi Rhodes about her... And I'm sending one to Thom Hartman. People need to hear what she has to say.