Comments: Study Shows How White House Managed Strategic Influence Campaign For War With Iraq

...so, when will the republican party split between the sane people and the evangelical, profiteering, vigilantes?

--ventura county, ca

Posted by Darryl Pearce at October 14, 2003 05:43 PM

I dunno, brand loyalty is pretty hard to beat in this country.

Posted by at October 14, 2003 05:53 PM

Are you actually implying there was something fishy with Fineman's death? If so, you should be clear, that would of course be very important.

Posted by CalDem at October 14, 2003 06:19 PM

Now, let's hope the Dem leadership isn't playing rope-a-dope and can get its act together to use information like this.

D

Posted by Dano at October 14, 2003 06:39 PM

Sam Gardiner was the guy the Bushies asked to help them work on getting the Iraqi infrastructure back in place.

I first heard of him while listening to a story on NPR which I transcribed for one of my posts here on the Left Coaster.

Lt Col Sam Gardiner was an advisor to the Bush White House on preparing for the humanitarian issues after a successful compaign in Iraq.

Q: Could this kind of thing been anticipated?

A: Umm, let me be honest. I briefed some people in the administration before the war. One of the officials said to me (a very high official), “We’ve already had an hour with the President on the humanitarian system. We’re done talking about that.” You see, if we had been prepared to deal with the humanitarian crisis, it would have delayed the war and as I detected, nobody was interested in that.

Posted by Mary at October 14, 2003 07:00 PM

If it wasn't for Diebold, then next year we could count on Arbusto going bust-o

Posted by pessimist at October 14, 2003 07:57 PM

I'm having trouble with the "Here" link. Just hang time. "Fiteen pages" might cheer me up.
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)

Posted by pogo at October 14, 2003 08:13 PM

If the CIA is on the warpath to get the WH, they sure seem awfully quiet about it -- so far all the heavy lifting has been done by Scott Ritter (who also had the decency to speak up before the invasion), Joe Wilson and Theilmann. How does Tenet duck the fact that he was sitting right behind Powell at the UN?

Posted by Marie at October 15, 2003 06:50 AM

This report is absolutely amazing. It's written strangely, not quite fleshed out and needs some grammatical and spelling editing even being 56 pages but it really brings together all the lies and lies of omission of Rumsfeld as he would or would not comment on unsubstantiated (fabricated) reports during the first months of the war.

Read the whole thing. I remember nearly all of the 50 points he brings up and at the time was skeptical of each one but to see them all put together this way is eye-opening all over again.

I'm not sure if it's available as a non pdf file but here's an address:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth.pdf

Posted by Rob C at October 15, 2003 06:57 AM