[…] ‘He was very concerned about getting along with the administration…… and “playing along” really meant to sustain the conceptions of the policy makers – particularly at the Pentagon and the Vice-President’s office – that Saddam Hussein was a real and imminent danger. ‘To do that, you had to accept some of these alarming reports […]
[…] administration. (2) Young asked Cook why the British government supports the US so slavishly. ‘Because of the Ministry of Defence’s fanatical determination to keep close to the Pentagon. They will never do anything that puts that relationship out of line. The truth is that it is the pivot of all military careers and a […]
[…] a natural order – or at least, should be made so. Hence, as we have also discussed, the efforts of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney at the Pentagon to establish the pre-emptive principle as a part of the US strategic furniture. Despite mounting near-unilateral military efforts in Iraq and the Balkans, the doctrinal case […]
[…] was helping the USA in its war with the Soviets in Afghanistan, and (b) US arms corporations were making money selling weapons systems and planes to the Pentagon which were being passed on to the Pakistan military as part of the price of co-operation in ‘the war on terror’. In short: Pakistan acquired the […]
[…] Sir Michael is among a number of senior British commanders who are said to question Britain’s backing for a US invasion of Iraq, and are sceptical of Pentagon claims about Saddam Hussein’s links with the al-Qa’ida terror organisation and his stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.’ (1) Even more off-message On 25 January 2004 […]
[…] day after the article was printed Pravda published a long article on the Generals’ revolt in which it said that the mutiny was encouraged by NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA. (18) The rumours on April 22nd were launched cautiously by “a minor official at the Elysee Palace itself”, according to Crosby Noyes in […]
[…] at least three others missed. I find it difficult to believe that any of the powerful elements in the US state apparatus – the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, for example – would have felt it necessary to ambush Kennedy if they just wanted to get rid of him, or change some of his policies. […]
[…] the use of ‘personnel from’ the various agencies above. The involvement of those agencies, as agencies, has not been proved. There is no official paper: indeed, the Pentagon has denied that the Army unit Pepper claims was involved existed in 1968. We don’t know how high up the chain of command within the military […]
[…] the Bush cabinets, the most brutal of which is the account of Colin Powell, whose career as ‘house nigger’ (my term, not the Parrys’), first for the Pentagon and then for the Bush regime, climaxed when he delivered the regime’s lies about Iraq’s weapons before the UN. Thirty years a soldier/bureaucrat, Powell is no […]
[…] In his final paragraphs Van Wynsberghe adds Lobster and Alex Cox to his line-up of dupes and villains. Lobster ‘began running reports on psychic cliques in the Pentagon’. I did? Not quite. And poor old Cox ‘maintained that there was a fascist conspiracy in the U.S. security establishment to encourage belief in UFO’s’. He […]
