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27 Apr 2007 04:41:38 PM |
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Duo held in 2-state kidnap |
Sinn Fein leader's kin faces kidnap charges
Peninsula, Qatar
Marvin Canning is facing seven charges
linked to the kidnap and assault of a man
and woman who were abducted from their
home in County Westmeath in the ...
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Man held in kidnap case
Solihull,UK
The suspect, from Great Barr, was arrested on
suspicion of kidnap after police appealed for
information about the incident. ...
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Man quizzed over attempted kidnap
Birmingham,UK
Police today revealed a 26-year-old man from
Great Barr had been arrested on suspicion of
attempted kidnap in connection with the incident
in Solihull. ...
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Kidnap quiz
London,England,UK
The men, aged 35 and 50, were taken from
Wilmer Place on Friday before being assaulted
and were forced to accompany their kidnappers
to other parts of ...
http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/content/hackney/gazette/news/story.aspx?brand=HKYGOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshkyg&itemid=WeED27%20Apr%202007%2011%3A43%3A28%3A373
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Emotional farewell for victims of kidnap-murder
by Rym Ghazal.
Beirut,Lebanon
Hundreds of mourners bid Ziad Qabalan and
Ziad Ghandour farewell on Friday in a funeral
procession awash with tears and strewn with ...
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Two policemen killed in kidnap attempt
Beijing,China
Gunmen's attempt to kidnap foreign oil workers
in southern Nigeria's oil-producing city of Port
Harcourt failed, killing two policemen ...
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Duo held in 2-state kidnap
by BETTY ADAMS
Augusta,ME,USA
Two men on probation in Maine for aggravated
assault have landed in hot water after being
accused of kidnapping two Foxy Lady ...
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Kidnap, Shooting Suspect Arrested
Los Angeles,CA,USA
BELLFLOWER
A man kidnapped his ex-girlfriend outside
her Bellflower home today after he shot and
wounded one of her male friends, ...
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Humvees, or calls in air-strikes. It doesn't have a high command, or
high security, or a high budget. The army that can defeat terrorism
does battle quietly, clearing minefields and vaccinating children. It
undermines military dictatorships and military lobbyists. It subverts
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| Title: "First, I am an American senator," U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel |
29 Apr 2007 01:21:51 PM |
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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/101424.html
Hagel: Support for Israel not 'automatic'
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel told an
Arab-American audience that his
support for Israel was not
"automatic."
Hagel (R-Neb.),
who is considering a run
for the presidency,
told the Arab American Institute's
annual dinner that he believes Israel
and the United States have a
"special relationship,"
but resented being told by a
pro-Israel activist that if he
wants backing from the
pro-Israel community,
his support for Israel
should be "automatic."
"First, I am an American senator,"
Hagel told the AAI audience in
Washington on Wednesday, to applause.
He also said he would not sacrifice
his friendships in the Arab world
to please pro-Israel groups.
"No relationship should be founded
on holding hostage other relationships,"
Hagel said.
"Why can't I have that relationship"
with Israel and its allies "not at
the expense of my friends in the
Arab world, in the Muslim world?
Why must it be a choice?
It is not a choice."
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| User: "John Rennie" |
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| Title: Re: "First, I am an American senator," U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel |
29 Apr 2007 01:30:23 PM |
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"torresdD" <torresD30@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3n5Zh.9731$3P3.1101@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/101424.html
Hagel: Support for Israel not 'automatic'
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel told an
Arab-American audience that his
support for Israel was not
"automatic."
Hagel (R-Neb.),
who is considering a run
for the presidency,
told the Arab American Institute's
annual dinner that he believes Israel
and the United States have a
"special relationship,"
but resented being told by a
pro-Israel activist that if he
wants backing from the
pro-Israel community,
his support for Israel
should be "automatic."
"First, I am an American senator,"
Hagel told the AAI audience in
Washington on Wednesday, to applause.
He also said he would not sacrifice
his friendships in the Arab world
to please pro-Israel groups.
"No relationship should be founded
on holding hostage other relationships,"
Hagel said.
"Why can't I have that relationship"
with Israel and its allies "not at
the expense of my friends in the
Arab world, in the Muslim world?
Why must it be a choice?
It is not a choice."
It won't stop the usual idiots calling him an anti-Semite. The
pro-Zionists are intent on calling those that criticise Israel in any way
anti-Semites without realising that they help to revive anti-Semitism. But
then again perhaps some do realise it. Maybe they want to increase
immigration to Israel by making the lives of Jews that more untenable
elsewhere.
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| User: "_ G O D _" |
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| Title: Re: "First, I am an American senator," U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel |
29 Apr 2007 02:37:23 PM |
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"John Rennie" <john-rennie@talktalk.net> wrote
news:wYedncf2UtWgeanbRVnyugA@giganews.com...
It won't stop the usual idiots calling him an anti-Semite.
The pro-Zionists are intent on calling those that criticise
Israel in any way anti-Semites without realising that they
help to revive anti-Semitism. But then again perhaps
some do realise it. Maybe they want to increase
immigration to Israel by making the lives of Jews that
more untenable elsewhere.
I consider it's a compliment to be called as
anti-semitist. It is a faulty doctrine, which is
based on superstitious religious beliefs of
creation (of man by god) and other similar
fairy tales, which don't have scientific basis....
You've picked the wrong words to explain
your resentment for Israel and the Zionism.
Because they're being a counter-measure
to the antagonism of Christian and Muslim
cults which misused their power they have
usually shared with ruling establishments...
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I intend to last long enough to put out of business all *****-suckers
and other beneficiaries of the institutionalized slavery and genocide.
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"The army that will defeat terrorism doesn't wear uniforms, or drive
Humvees, or calls in air-strikes. It doesn't have a high command, or
high security, or a high budget. The army that can defeat terrorism
does battle quietly, clearing minefields and vaccinating children. It
undermines military dictatorships and military lobbyists. It subverts
sweatshops and special interests.Where people feel powerless, it
helps them organize for change, and where people are powerful, it
reminds them of their responsibility." ~~~~ Author Unknown ~~~~
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| Title: Re: "First, I am an American senator," U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel |
30 Apr 2007 02:18:00 PM |
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"John Rennie" <john-rennie@talktalk.net> wrote in message
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"torresdD" <torresD30@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/101424.html
Hagel: Support for Israel not 'automatic'
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel told an
Arab-American audience that his
support for Israel was not
"automatic."
Hagel (R-Neb.),
who is considering a run
for the presidency,
told the Arab American Institute's
annual dinner that he believes Israel
and the United States have a
"special relationship,"
but resented being told by a
pro-Israel activist that if he
wants backing from the
pro-Israel community,
his support for Israel
should be "automatic."
"First, I am an American senator,"
Hagel told the AAI audience in
Washington on Wednesday, to applause.
He also said he would not sacrifice
his friendships in the Arab world
to please pro-Israel groups.
"No relationship should be founded
on holding hostage other relationships,"
Hagel said.
"Why can't I have that relationship"
with Israel and its allies "not at
the expense of my friends in the
Arab world, in the Muslim world?
Why must it be a choice?
It is not a choice."
It won't stop the usual idiots calling him an anti-Semite.
*****. There is nothing wrong with supporting Arab interests,
coincident with supporting Jewish interests, as long as it does
not involve abandoning the right of Israel to exist.
It's unfortunate that some Arab Muslims both outside and inside
of the middle-east often pay little attention to the plight of the
Palestinian Arabs, who have been set up as cannon fodder
by Islam in an effort to eliminate the Jewish state of Israel.
While Jewish interests in supporting the Jews of Israel are
generally met with arguments that clearly border on anti-Semitism.
Why is it that when one ethnic group helps another it is seen
as ethnic altruism, while when the Jews help each other, which
is what they famous for, and what has sustained them as a
people for thousands of years, it is greeted with contempt?
Why shouldn't one Jew financially help another to survive?
Why shouldn't one Arab financially help another to survive?
The pro-Zionists are intent on calling those that criticise Israel in any way
anti-Semites without realising that they help to revive anti-Semitism.
More *****. Pro-Zionists are almost 100% in favor of mutual
co-existence with Arabs in the middle-east. How many Jews have
found it possible to live in lands other than Israel in the middle-east?
Obviously there are fruitcake Zionists who claim Biblical rather than
legal justification for the land, but there are even more Zionists who
wish peace could find a foundation under the conditions established by
the U.N. But let's be fair: How many Pro-Zionists are teaching
their children to become suicide bombers and murder innocent
Arabs anywhere in the world, much less the middle-east? While
how many Muslim Arabs in the middle east have taken their problems
into homes of people outside of the middle-east who hardly know
there is a problem in the middle-east? To me it seems more reasonable
to argue through lobbying rather than the use of suicide bombs and
aircraft as missiles.
But then again perhaps some do realise it. Maybe they want to increase
immigration to Israel by making the lives of Jews that more untenable
elsewhere.
Gee... You mean for the 20% of Jews who have managed to scrape out
a living in prejudice as Jews outside of either Israel or the U.S.?
Europeans have already tried to make the lives of Jews as untenable as
possible in Europe. Not only in the Shoah. Or haven't you heard? See --
http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2005/Jan/05-93928.html
I wonder why 40% of all Jews in the world have chosen to live in
Israel, and another 40% of all Jews in the world have chosen to live
in the U.S.? Could that relate to the negative feelings that many
non-Jews outside of either Israel or the U.S. have about the existence
of Israel? I wonder why only 8% of all Jews in the world live in
ALL of the EU, while 46.4% live in the Americas, with 40.5% in
the U.S.? Yet, almost all of the objections to the Jews in one way
or another, come from Europeans posting here. If Turkey enters
the EU, in one fell swoop the EU will gain 70 times more Muslims
than the number of Jews presently living in the EU. In one fell swoop
the EU will gain five times as many Muslims as there are Jews in the
entire world. Yet this issue doesn't seem as contentious to
Europeans as does the existence of Israel, IMO.
But you've opened the door for every anti-Semite, John. Once
you try to argue that the Jews are responsible for anti-Semitism, it
suggests that you also believe Blacks are behind White racism toward
Blacks. And then it's katy bar the door, as every racist and
anti-Semite jumps up in approval of such an argument. Watch for
Desmond to claim that Zionists are "milking" the Holocaust. Watch
for Craig to jump in with both feet in agreement with your comment.
The fact is there are hypocrites and fanatics on both sides of the
existence of Israel in the middle-east. But I am quite certain which
side has a colossal preponderance of hypocrites and fanatics...
and it ain't the Jews or Americans. It starts with the letter -- "I"
In any case, Hagel seems like a reasonable Republican. Something
I certainly feel the Republican party needs. If Fred Thompson
decides not to run or is not nominated for President by the
Republican party, I suspect Hagel might even get my vote if
he is nominated. Otherwise, it really looks like I might have to
vote Democrat, unless a real loser is nominated by that party.
And we do have an abundance of losers. In which case, I
might just pay heed to Desmond prayer... and shoot myself. :-)
Planet Visitor II
Official publisher of AADP Official dictionary
http://www.planetvisitor.name/dictionary.html
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| Title: Re: "First, I am an American senator," U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel |
29 Apr 2007 02:34:17 PM |
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In article <wYedncf2UtWgeanbRVnyugA@giganews.com>, john-
rennie@talktalk.net says...
"torresdD" <torresD30@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3n5Zh.9731$3P3.1101@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/101424.html
Hagel: Support for Israel not 'automatic'
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel told an
Arab-American audience that his
support for Israel was not
"automatic."
Hagel (R-Neb.),
who is considering a run
for the presidency,
told the Arab American Institute's
annual dinner that he believes Israel
and the United States have a
"special relationship,"
but resented being told by a
pro-Israel activist that if he
wants backing from the
pro-Israel community,
his support for Israel
should be "automatic."
"First, I am an American senator,"
Hagel told the AAI audience in
Washington on Wednesday, to applause.
He also said he would not sacrifice
his friendships in the Arab world
to please pro-Israel groups.
"No relationship should be founded
on holding hostage other relationships,"
Hagel said.
"Why can't I have that relationship"
with Israel and its allies "not at
the expense of my friends in the
Arab world, in the Muslim world?
Why must it be a choice?
It is not a choice."
It won't stop the usual idiots calling him an anti-Semite. The
pro-Zionists are intent on calling those that criticise Israel in any way
anti-Semites without realising that they help to revive anti-Semitism. But
then again perhaps some do realise it. Maybe they want to increase
immigration to Israel by making the lives of Jews that more untenable
elsewhere.
What they want is to maintain that "automatic" support for Israel,
regardless of how abhorrent Israeli policy and its enactment may be to
those who are called on to support it. To do so, they have no
compunction about spilling the blood of their own citizens or that of
their neighbours in the region if doing so provides an opportunity for
propaganda among Zionists elsewhere.
The propaganda machine is very well developed and has been a very useful
tool for Israeli Governments for decades. Once upon a time, if an issue
was of importance to Israel, we could expect to see a concerted letter-
writing campaign on the issue and the opinion pages of the papers would
be full of the subject, swamping or ignoring any message but that of
support for the "heroism" of the "poor Israelis". Today, the Internet
makes it possible for people to put their own POV cheaply and easily,
thus somewhat undermining the strength of that organisation. I suspect
that in my lifetime I am going to see a very major change in Western
policies toward Israel, including that of the US, as money becomes
tighter and the propaganda becomes weaker. Eventually, the place will
revert to the status of a Syria or Lebanon and will be expected to stand
on its own. I hope the Israelis are sufficiently prepared.
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30 Apr 2007 02:18:16 PM |
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"Fred Bloggs" <mister_exador@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.209f9000722b4d298996c@news.bigpond.com...
In article <wYedncf2UtWgeanbRVnyugA@giganews.com>, john-
rennie@talktalk.net says...
"torresdD" <torresD30@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3n5Zh.9731$3P3.1101@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/101424.html
Hagel: Support for Israel not 'automatic'
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel told an
Arab-American audience that his
support for Israel was not
"automatic."
Hagel (R-Neb.),
who is considering a run
for the presidency,
told the Arab American Institute's
annual dinner that he believes Israel
and the United States have a
"special relationship,"
but resented being told by a
pro-Israel activist that if he
wants backing from the
pro-Israel community,
his support for Israel
should be "automatic."
"First, I am an American senator,"
Hagel told the AAI audience in
Washington on Wednesday, to applause.
He also said he would not sacrifice
his friendships in the Arab world
to please pro-Israel groups.
"No relationship should be founded
on holding hostage other relationships,"
Hagel said.
"Why can't I have that relationship"
with Israel and its allies "not at
the expense of my friends in the
Arab world, in the Muslim world?
Why must it be a choice?
It is not a choice."
It won't stop the usual idiots calling him an anti-Semite. The
pro-Zionists are intent on calling those that criticise Israel in any way
anti-Semites without realising that they help to revive anti-Semitism. But
then again perhaps some do realise it. Maybe they want to increase
immigration to Israel by making the lives of Jews that more untenable
elsewhere.
What they want is to maintain that "automatic" support for Israel,
regardless of how abhorrent Israeli policy and its enactment may be to
those who are called on to support it. To do so, they have no
compunction about spilling the blood of their own citizens or that of
their neighbours in the region if doing so provides an opportunity for
propaganda among Zionists elsewhere.
The propaganda machine is very well developed and has been a very useful
tool for Israeli Governments for decades. Once upon a time, if an issue
was of importance to Israel, we could expect to see a concerted letter-
writing campaign on the issue and the opinion pages of the papers would
be full of the subject, swamping or ignoring any message but that of
support for the "heroism" of the "poor Israelis". Today, the Internet
makes it possible for people to put their own POV cheaply and easily,
thus somewhat undermining the strength of that organisation. I suspect
that in my lifetime I am going to see a very major change in Western
policies toward Israel, including that of the US, as money becomes
tighter and the propaganda becomes weaker. Eventually, the place will
revert to the status of a Syria or Lebanon and will be expected to stand
on its own. I hope the Israelis are sufficiently prepared.
Now, now... Freddy... you mustn't have an orgasm thinking about all the
dead Jews. After all... you've already argued that the Nazis did everything
legal-like in their attempt to exterminate the Jews.... so I suspect you
would argue that _finishing the job_ would be just as legal.
Planet Visitor II
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http://www.planetvisitor.name/dictionary.html
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| Title: PAUL WOLFOWITZ: The puppet who cleared the way for Iraq's destruction |
29 Apr 2007 03:29:42 PM |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2065456,00.html
The puppet who cleared the way for Iraq's destruction
Paul Wolfowitz must bear a large part
of the responsibility that is usually
laid at the door of his superior alone
Andrew Cockburn
Thursday April 26, 2007
The Guardian
Among those relishing the exposure
of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz's
manoeuvres on behalf of his girlfriend,
Shaha Riza,
in recent weeks was almost certainly
the former US defence secretary,
Donald Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld was driven from public life
thanks to the catastrophe of Iraq,
and for the moment at least lurks
in obscurity.
Wolfowitz,
his deputy until 2005,
contributed in almost
equal measure to the debacle,
yet managed to slide from the
Pentagon into the presidency of
a leading international institution
with every chance to redeem himself.
Blame for torture at
Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo,
bungling over troop levels,
chaos in Iraq's reconstruction,
and the general meltdown in Pentagon
management has all too often been
laid at Rumsfeld's door alone.
However,
Wolfowitz was an energetic enabler
of these outrages and many other
notorious initiatives.
To cite just one example:
among the most infamous documentary
testaments to Rumsfeld's place in
the hierarchy of torture is the
First Special Interrogation Plan
for use at Guantánamo that received
his approval in December 2002.
It cleared the way for
prolonged sleep deprivation,
20-hour interrogations,
and sexual and religious humiliation,
along with other favoured techniques.
But as the document signed by Rumsfeld notes,
the plan had earlier been reviewed and
approved by "the deputy", ie Wolfowitz.
There are indications that Wolfowitz
was even more hands on when it came
to Abu Ghraib.
At the May 2006 court martial
of Sergeant Santos Cardona,
who was one of the low-ranking
personnel called to atone for
the collective sins of the
military establishment,
testimony from one of the
interrogators alleged that
Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were
in direct contact with the
prison and received
"nightly briefings"
on the intelligence
being extracted under
torture.
Just as Rumsfeld will forever
be uniquely associated with the
torture policy,
the hapless former US
viceroy in Iraq, Paul Bremer,
is credited with the disastrous
decision to disband the Iraqi army.
Yet numerous sources in Baghdad
and the Pentagon at the time were
insistent the disbandment decree
had been drafted with Wolfowitz's
assent,
probably as a means of removing
a potential pool of support for
a rival to the neoconservatives'
favourite Iraqi, Ahmed Chalabi.
Earlier Wolfowitz had manoeuvred
to have himself appointed as
viceroy in Iraq.
That effort failed.
But a newly revealed inquiry
by the Pentagon's inspector
general found that,
in a foretaste of things to come,
he did his best to secure a
high-level position in the
administration of the conquered
country for Riza.
Seemingly,
he was in awe of her
expertise on Iraqi matters.
Participants in high level
meetings to discuss intelligence
on Iraq told me they were startled
to hear the deputy secretary of
defence invoke his girlfriend:
"Shaha says ..."
Other Pentagon officials were
ess impressed by her knowledge
of the country,
not to mention the enormous
salary she demanded for her
services,
and successfully blocked the appointment.
Instead, a huge Pentagon contractor,
Saic, was directed to hire Riza for
a temporary Iraq mission.
Before we conclude that Wolfowitz
was the original author of the
policies that destroyed Iraq,
we should note that his entire career,
at least up through his Pentagon service,
has been in the service and at the
direction of others.
His early work in Washington
promoting the dubious merits
of an anti-ballistic missile
programme, for example,
was sponsored by Paul Nitze,
a powerful insider who devoted
a lifetime of intrigue to boosting
east-west tensions and US defence
spending.
Nitze served as godfather to the
neoconservative movement in the 70s,
correctly calculating that a fusion
of the pro-Israel lobby with the
military-industrial lobby would
create an alliance of unstoppable power.
Among the early and most potent
recruits was an old friend of
Wolfowitz's, Richard Perle,
known and feared in Washington
as "the Prince of Darkness"
for his ruthless bureaucratic
skills and commanding position
in the neoconservative forces.
The relationship flourished
into Wolfowitz's sojourn in
the Pentagon.
Officials who worked closely
with him remarked to me on the
amount of time Perle,
then a close associate of Conrad Black,
spent closeted with the deputy secretary.
They remained in constant touch,
as Wolfowitz's phone logs attest.
Other regular recipients of
Wolfowitz calls included Lewis
"Scooter" Libby,
then chief of staff to
Vice-President Cheney and
now a convicted felon,
and Robin Cleveland.
Cleveland was in charge of national
security programmes at the White
House office of management and budget.
From that powerful position,
according to a former close
colleague of Wolfowitz's,
she
"was one of the most important
people in the group that gave
us the Iraq war".
Late last year Perle and other
leading neoconservatives lashed
out publicly at Rumsfeld,
deriding his mismanagement
of the Iraqi enterprise they
had worked so hard to set in
train.
"Interesting they are
not going after the puppet,"
the former colleague emailed
me in reference to Wolfowitz's
absence from his old friends'
denunciations.
Given recent sordid revelations,
his role in shredding the reputation
of the World Bank and the morale of
its employees may be harder to obscure.
· Andrew Cockburn's book Rumsfeld:
An American Disaster is published next month
amcockburn@gmail.com
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