What could have possessed Prime Minister Maliki to rush headlong into a battle he was thoroughly unprepared for? The Bush Administration has responded with certainty about only one thing: they were not involved in the planning. But former CIA analyst Ray McGovern says that Maliki "can't scratch his nose without asking Petraeus to make sure there aren't extra body guards around," much less plan an offensive without him. Moreover, McGovern suspects that that the initiation of the Basra offensive came not from Maliki, but from Vice President Cheney.
You might remember McGovern from his infamous 2006 encounter with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The exchange shed a ray of truth on what was otherwise a shady tenure for the now "resigned" neocon.
To briefly recap, McGovern began by reminding Rumsfeld that he had formerly claimed he knew precisely where the WMDs were in Iraq. Rumsfeld, unable to ignore a man who provided daily intelligence briefings for both Presidents Reagan and H. W. Bush, defiantly interrupted. "I did not. I said I knew where suspect sites were."
"You said you knew where they were: 'Near Tikrit, near Baghdad, and East, West, South and North somewhat" McGovern said, referencing Rumsfeld's appearance on ABC three years earlier. Rumsfeld, rendered speechless, scrambled to change the subject.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-palevsky/ex-cia-analyst-outs-chene_b_96855.html
2 comments:
Oh Pa leeze.......some people are just now realizing Cheney is behind everything?
TGCN your right all the Law Makers and Media have turned a blind eye to this for 7 years. Now it's old news and everything is going as Cheney planned for the United States. He only failed at the Middle East as they played him for the idiot he is. Look for Iraq to be the country to visit as they have a better Economy then the US. Now as for right now Iraq is waiting it out just to keep getting that 12 billion a month. Who ever gets in office wont have to leave the US will be kicked out and Iran with Iraq with become strong/rich/powerful. Look for Pakistan to join in with Iraq. As for Afghanistan they to will have a new President not picked by the Bush/Cheney team. I see good things ahead for the Middle East they knew how to play the USA for fools and it worked.
Even now the US is said to have secret talks with Iran. Now why would Iran now want to speak to the US after 7 years the US has threaten Iran and even taken them to the UN so many times with lies?
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