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Our serious foreign policy geniuses strike again
The same people who smeared Mohamed ElBaradei in 2002 over Iraq did the same in 2007 over Iran. They were dead wrong both times.
Glenn Greenwald [2007-12-04]

  • factions operating secretely in gvt

    What's interesting, and even encouraging, about the NIE release is that there is evidently a substantial faction inside the intelligence agencies and the military that has so far managed to leak and foot-drag the war party to a standstill. hquain

    I find no comfort in the notion that there are "faction(s) inside the intelligence agencies and the military" working against the civilian leadership - for any reason.

    We, the people, should have been able to relieve them from a rotten leadership, so they could continue to simply serve the nation unencumbered by politics or having to make their own unvetted decisions.

    Yes, this "faction" seems - this time - to want to oppose another unnecessary war, but all this says is that we civilians have lost control of OUR war-making apparatus. I cannot simply rely on secret operations among insider factions making all the decisions, especially when it comes to war and death.

    I want this crap all out, I want hearings in Congress, I want prosecutions, I want justice done. I want transparent, determined national action and resolve.

    Is this too much to ask?

    -- Riversofexile
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    Tuesday, December 4, 2007 05:20 AM
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