I Smell Success!
DREAM TEAM 2004:
TODAY ON CNN/WOLF BLITZER, HOWARD DEAN SAYS HE WOULD GLADLY ACCEPT WES CLARK AS RUNNING MATE
Dean also beautifully ripped away at the out-of-touch DLC leadership.
He also firmly claimed that the U.S. flag doesn't belong to one of his supreme nay-sayers Tom DeLay and his wacko extremist ilk.
Some people Dean mentioned as trusted potential security advisors:
Joseph Hoar
Ivo Daalder
Susan Wright
Insults to Intelligence
It's Not too Late to Speak Out
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Excerpt:
"....While it is too late to prevent the misadventure in Iraq, the war is hardly over, and analogous "evidence" is being assembled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Yes, US forces will have their hands full for a long time in Iraq, but this hardly rules out further adventures based on "intelligence" as spurious as that used to argue the case for attacking Iraq.
The best deterrent is the truth. Telling the truth about the abuse of intelligence on Iraq could conceivably give pause to those about to do a reprise. It is, in any case, essential that the American people acquire a more accurate understanding of the use and abuse of intelligence. Only then can there be any hope that they can experience enough healing from the trauma of 9/11 to be able to make informed judgments regarding the policies pursued by this administration--thus far with the timid acquiescence of their elected representatives.
History is littered with the guilty consciences of those who chose to remain silent. It is time to speak out."
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity---who are they?
Are they for real?
Answer: Yes, of course they are.
"Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group of retired spies, issued an open letter to Bush Monday reflecting the view of many in the intelligence community that the central culprit is Vice President Dick Cheney. The open letter called for Cheney's resignation...." Nicholas Kristof
Have you read "INTELLIGENCE UNGLUED"?
*It's a letter to President Bush, which charges the vice president drove the U.S. to war with a "campaign of deceit" -- and then the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity call for Cheney's head.*
Oh Where,
Oh Where Has Our Dick Cheney Gone?
Credit: www.vitalmusic.net
Oh Where,
Oh Where Can He Be?
They thought he might be here. But, no....
He's been out making hay while our sons die.
GET REAL, RUMSFELD!!
Someone get this nutty coot out of the Defense Department before it's too late! He's detached from reality!
Rumsfeld Seeking to Bolster Force Without New G.I.'s
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, seeking to increase the nation's combat power without hiring more troops, is poised to order a sweeping review of Pentagon policies, officials say. It will include everything from wartime mobilization and peacekeeping commitments, to reservist training and incentives for extended duty.
Your volunteers aren't toys, Rumsfeld. Quit playing games with their lives, drop the PNAC blueprint and get on bended knee and appeal to the U.N. for their cooperation and power-sharing in Iraq as you should have done all along. The pride of the Bush administration is taking American lives. That's shitty leadership, pure and simple. Sorry--someone's got to say it.
WE MAY FAIL
Pentagon / Bush Administration Utter Incompetency--
What A Damned Pity!
Fighting 'The Big One'
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Excerpt:
"....We may fail, but not because we have attracted terrorists who understand what's at stake in Iraq. We may fail because of the utter incompetence with which the Pentagon leadership has handled the postwar. (We don't even have enough translators there, let alone M.P.'s, and the media network we've set up there to talk to Iraqis is so bad we'd be better off buying ads on Al Jazeera.) We may fail because the Bush team thinks it can fight The Big One in the Middle East — while cutting taxes at home, shrinking the U.S. Army, changing the tax code to encourage Americans to buy gas-guzzling cars that make us more dependent on Mideast oil and by gratuitously alienating allies.
We may fail because to win The Big One, we need an American public, and allies, ready to pay any price and bear any burden, but we have a president unable or unwilling to summon either."
