Kill the Messenger
Robert Baer's "See No Evil": "I knew enough about the way Washington worked to know that when it didn't like some piece of information it did everything in its power to discredit the messenger" Baer was a CIA on-the-ground field officers in the Middle East. Bush's surrogates sought to discredit the integrity of any professional with the courage to disagree with his decision to invade Iraq.
John Dean's "Worst than Watergate: "Their look how tough we are posture on everything actually entices terrorists to up the ante towards a worst-case scenario. Indeed, this administration is surely bin Laden’s dream team."
Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies": "We invaded and occupied an oil rich Arab country that posted no threat to us...We delivered to al Qaeda the greatest recruitment propaganda imaginable." Clarke served under four presidents beginning as an analyst on nuclear weapons under Reagan.
Marine General Anthony Zinni quoted in "Battle Ready": "In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw false rationals presented as justification; the underestimation of the task; the unnecessary distraction from real threats". Zinni's credentials include nearly forty years of military service and served as Colin Powell's special envoy to the Middle East before resigning over the invasion of Iraq.
Michael Scheuer's "Imperial Hubris": "The reality is that many of the worlds 1.3 Billion Muslims hate us for our actions not our values. Bin Laden has been precise in telling Americans the reason he is waging war on us. He could not enjoy his increasing level of success if Muslims did not believe their faith; brethren; resources and land were under attack by the U.S." Michael Scheuer wrote "Imperial Hubris" under the pseudonym Anonymous. He was a senior member of the intelligence community with two decades of experience in national security issues.
President Bush: "God told me to strike al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike Saddam..."
Thomas Jefferson: "He who permits himself to tell a lie often finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, til at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world 's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to the heart and in time depraves all its good dispositions" It has become apparent that Bush and some of his close associates have become afflicted by the " falsehood of the tongue" syndrome.
John Dean's "Worst than Watergate: "Their look how tough we are posture on everything actually entices terrorists to up the ante towards a worst-case scenario. Indeed, this administration is surely bin Laden’s dream team."
Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies": "We invaded and occupied an oil rich Arab country that posted no threat to us...We delivered to al Qaeda the greatest recruitment propaganda imaginable." Clarke served under four presidents beginning as an analyst on nuclear weapons under Reagan.
Marine General Anthony Zinni quoted in "Battle Ready": "In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw false rationals presented as justification; the underestimation of the task; the unnecessary distraction from real threats". Zinni's credentials include nearly forty years of military service and served as Colin Powell's special envoy to the Middle East before resigning over the invasion of Iraq.
Michael Scheuer's "Imperial Hubris": "The reality is that many of the worlds 1.3 Billion Muslims hate us for our actions not our values. Bin Laden has been precise in telling Americans the reason he is waging war on us. He could not enjoy his increasing level of success if Muslims did not believe their faith; brethren; resources and land were under attack by the U.S." Michael Scheuer wrote "Imperial Hubris" under the pseudonym Anonymous. He was a senior member of the intelligence community with two decades of experience in national security issues.
President Bush: "God told me to strike al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike Saddam..."
Thomas Jefferson: "He who permits himself to tell a lie often finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, til at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world 's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to the heart and in time depraves all its good dispositions" It has become apparent that Bush and some of his close associates have become afflicted by the " falsehood of the tongue" syndrome.
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