[…] 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]: […] time of Whitlam’s dismissal, and leaked the explosive story of Whitlam’s Iraqi benefactors, spicing it up further with allegations that Whitlam was going to leak information to Iraq about Arab discussions with Henry Kissinger. And of course, in February 1976 with Whitlam back in opposition, Mr Murdoch duly published it. However, he displayed his […]
[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]: […] (2010), purports to be a memoir of the MRF period. As to its veracity, I have no idea. 13 For details see the case of Fallujah in Iraq discussed at . 14 15 Wilson’s letter with the links therein can be read at . 6 Catholics. The response of the Army and police was […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
