I spent a lot of hours on planes and in airports the last few days
and was able to read Michael Chossudovsky's War and Globalization. I
think he's made a very good case that stories like the one cited
below from SLATE is the result of strawman diversion orchestrated by
the CIA. Discussions about incorrect analysis and failure to pay
attention are discussions the bad guys want us to have. Issues like
this keep us from seeing their own responsibility for 911 and other
chaos that is fostered to keep arms sales up, oil controls in place,
plain folks subjugated and progressives sidetracked. If we weren't
discussing this, we might be creating strategies for prosecuting the
CIA and its cohorts in the House, Senate, Executive and media for
creating Al Queda in the first place and funding Bush family buddy
Osama Bin Laden, etc.
I stopped in a gas station in Nevada yesterday that had a mini-teevee
on each gas pump tuned to CNN. As I pumped gas, the screen showed the
legend "Big Story" (no editorializing there!), while showing excerpts
from costrategists Condoleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton each
announcing their roles playing candidates facing each other in the
upcoming made-for-teevee special, The Straw Women, a bitch and phony
Rove production aimed at making sure any Boston Tea Party is no more
interesting or productive than a nice little coffee klatch before
booting up the office computer for another day of tracking assets for
the rich.
Dan Scanlan
On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
from SLATE's news summary: >USA Today ... leads with a newly released
CIA-sponsored report concluding that the administration—hold on to
your hats—covered its eyes when it came to prewar intel suggesting
that Iraq might unravel after Saddam's fall. The report, which was
written by former CIA guys and commissioned by former chief George
Tenet, concludes, "In an ironic twist, the policy community was
receptive to technical intelligence (the weapons program), where the
analysis was wrong, but apparently paid little attention to
intelligence on cultural and political issues (post-Saddam Iraq),
where the analysis was right."<
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Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
