[…] fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All our yesterdays ‘George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It’s time to call him what he is: “A liar”’. That is the striking title of a piece on Businessinsider.46 In this, two former CIA […]
[…] fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All our yesterdays ‘George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It’s time to call him what he is: “A liar”’. That is the striking title of a piece on Businessinsider.46 In this, two former CIA […]
[…] fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All our yesterdays ‘George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It’s time to call him what he is: “A liar”’. That is the striking title of a piece on Businessinsider.33 In this, two former CIA […]
[PDF file]: […] before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with pictures of babies with gross deformities born in the Falluja hospital, is to be found in Professor Paola Manduca’s ‘The biological […]
[PDF file]: […] was further highlighted when Sir John inadvertently forced the pulling of a press statement by Foreign Secretary William Hague on the day the last British troops left Iraq: it was reported at the same time that Sir John – who helped Prime Minister Blair make the case for the illegal invasion of Iraq – […]
[PDF file]: […] credit to General Stanley McChrystal. ‘Pattern Analysis’ was the way forward and McChrystal was ‘the principal driver of this revolutionary intelligence system’. To fight the insurgency in Iraq, they had to put together ‘a million-piece puzzle’ with ‘no box top to look at to help us’. Intelligence and the effective use of it were […]
[PDF file]: […] us, ‘in the classrooms of the Naval Postgraduate School where I teach company and field grade US and international officers’. Here he encountered officers newly returned from Iraq and Afghanistan who were ‘not only unsettled by their experiences in these countries, but also persuaded that the hearts and minds counterinsurgency doctrines they were despatched […]
[PDF file]: […] Daily Mail from an Iranian defector,25 matches precisely what I was shown in a secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the […]
[…] not purely a matter of self-interest. As a candidate, he often railed against the foreign policies of his predecessors, Democrat and Republican alike — in particular the Iraq war, a debacle that was inseparable from the failures of the intelligence community. After it was reported in December 2016 that the C.I.A. had concluded that […]
[PDF file]: […] involved at the highest level in running America’s Empire, from the Battles of Fallujah to commanding US Central Command (CENTCOM) that covered some twenty countries including both Iraq and Afghanistan. While his credentials as a servant of US Imperialism are impeccable, to give him his due, when he was first contacted by Vice President […]
