I must admit I wasn't too shocked when I found out that the creepy guy from Texas had consulted Rumsfeld for a foreign policy team. And of course that old scum sucker recommended his guys from the dismantled and I thought disgraced, Office of Special Plans - the same people that brought us the Iraq War. A shameful episode of large scale propaganda that was built upon lies, many of them "the lies of ommission." Members of Congress, the American people, the media and others fell prey to the big lie.
Most readers here are quite familiar with how the deception came about. In a sane society, the neocons who brought us this fiasco would be locked up for a long time. But no, they're being tasked as foreign policy advisors by a presidential candidate, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas.
First, there was the consistent refusal to provide witnesses and information to the U.S. Senate, especially regarding the projected costs of the war, and the lack of opportunities to question key players, such as Gen. Jay Garner, who was appointed by the Defense Department to be the first head of the U.S. provisional authority in Iraq. There was also the subtle hiding of the objections of the Department of Energy and the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) in the NIE of October 2002. One Congressional source explained that the classified NIE was made available in its entirety to only a select few members of Congress. There were verbal briefings, and an elaborate process to access the document in a secure location. But, it was never clear that the 27-page unclassified version that was available to every office was missing any crucial information.
From "Drinking the Koolaid" by Col. Patrick Lang, USA (Ret)
former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Mideast Intelligence.
Of the neocons - whom I all detest - one stands out to me, Rumsfeld's former Undersecretary of Defense, Douglas Feith. Dr. Evil's "Mini Me." Think Progress has a great rundown on the cast of characters called "The Architects of War, Where Are They Now?" Well many of them are hoping for a new job, in the administration of GOP hopeful, Gov. Rick Perry. And we can't let that happen, they're still itching to invade Iran.