Leon Panetta channels Donald Rumsfeld

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from AlterNet:



Say What? Defense Secretary Panetta Tells Troops They're in Iraq Because of 9/11 Attack


Looks like Panetta is off to a stellar start. The Washington Post reports:

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday appeared to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq as part of the war against al-Qaeda, an argument controversially made by the Bush administration but refuted by President Obama and many Democrats.

While speaking in Iraq to soldiers, the Post reports:

"The reason you guys are here is because on 9/11 the United States got attacked," Panetta told the troops. "And 3,000 Americans -- 3,000 not just Americans, 3,000 human beings, innocent human beings -- got killed because of al-Qaeda. And we've been fighting as a result of that."

Really? Our Secretary of Defense in 2011 is still re-iterating Bushisms about Iraq. I thought we had debunked that big old lie, but apparently one pretty important person in charge of our military didn't get the memo. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/632555/say_what_defense_secretary_panetta_tells_troops_they%27re_in_iraq_because_of_9_11_attack/

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1. perpetuation of the bush cheney agenda. never ends does it? nt

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2. Vomit.

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3. Oh good, another bullshit Pentagon chief. Just what we wanted. Not.

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5. My favorite Panetta quote as Obama's new CIA director

“I do not believe what I said and neither does the government of the United States. It was my mistake to repeat something that someone told me. It was not my intention to assume that thought as my own."

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Feb. 2009, while begging forgiveness from the Argentine government for saying the global economic crisis of the time was going to "destabilize" Argentina. It caused outrage in Buenos Aires and he had to apologize.

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4. kick.