Mylroie: Big Error by O'Neill Author on 60 Minutes

Iraq News News Letter - sam11@erols.com | 1-11-04 | Laurie Mylroie

[Miss Marple]

O'Neill was recommended by Cheney. And Alan Greenspan. If anyone insisted on hiring O'Neill, it was those two.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Why is it a scandal that Bush was planning an invasion before 9/11? -lasereye

Because it feeds the "it-was-all-about-oil Bush's Unjust War", and "GW's Revenge" mentalities. -prairiebreeze

We see all the time how NYTABCCBSNBC are complicit in feeding just enough of that Dean anger. That said, I have just recalled that President Bush asserted there was no plan on his desk for an invasion of Iraq. This was during the buildup to the Congressional declaration.

[Peach]

Welcome back, prairie.

Thanks for pinging me to #92. This story is going to be in the forefront for a while.

Anyone know how to get Laurie Mylroi's comments out there?

[Finalapproach29er]

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[Peach]

Good work.

FNC has had Laurie Mylroi on; hope they have her again to discuss this matter.

And some administration officials to explain how geopolitics works within the White House.

Evidentally, can't ketchup Kerry doesn't understand.

[Tunehead54]

Bookmark ping to related post: "Confessions of a White House Insider"

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Thanks! ;-)

[hosepipe]

Patriot conspirator: Relax, you won't feel a thing..

LoL...

[SupplySider]

O'Neill was recommended by Cheney. And Alan Greenspan. If anyone insisted on hiring O'Neill, it was those two.

After the disasterous Nicholas Brady, you'd think they would have learned something. Now we have Snow, marginally better, but of the same ilk.

[Utah Girl]

Laurie Mylroie ping

[John H K]

The book has been out of print for several years but it's well worth hunting down a copy if one is interested in the era, subject matter, or speculative fiction in general.

Already done :-). found it for next to nothing in good condition on some internet site the name of which escapes me. Might have been bookfinder.com or something like that.

The worst part of the book is the arbitrary way the war starts; the Germans just randomly attack. They would have at least tried to engineer a crisis, or fake a casus belli.

The torpedo attack in NY Harbor, and the Apaches brought into the NYC suburbs running around terrorizing German troops by killing and mutilating them, was quite cool though.

[doug from upland]

I heard Fund, but he didn't talk about Dr. Mylroie's info.

[Valin]

I'd like to say I'm shocked...but that would be a lie.

[Republican Wildcat]

Finally, O'Neill's statement to Time magazine, "I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction," is bizarre.

I didn't realize such things were the business of the Treasury Secretary.

This guy is a joke and a fraud.

[doug from upland]

Just sent to Dr. Bill Watterburg at KGO in San Francisco.

[Cosmo]

ROTFLMAO!

[Terridan]

Bush was cleaning house when he got there... it takes time to root out the rats... and have substantiation for doing so. O'Neil is toast... and won't make any money off of his book... Loser!

[nutmeg]

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[nutmeg]

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is typical. With Bush riding high and the DemonRat front-runner crashing and burning, we'll be seeing more of these bogus stories about Bush starting the Iraq war to get rich and/or he started the war to win over the bloodthirsty swing voters who wanted revenge after Sept. 11th.

When visiting my parents this Christmas, I saw an issue of Newsweek sitting on the coffee table. The cover story was about how Dick Cheney bought into bad intelligence and engaged in cherry-picking intelligence because he was psycho about going to war in Iraq. This "inside story" of how the White House used selective perception to decide to go to war didn't name a single credible source. The whole story quoted anonymous sources "on the inside" and cited second- and third-hand conversations. I'd bet the proverbial house and lot that the entire article was dreamed up and typed by some correspondent looking to find yet another way to take a hit on Bush. The mainstream media has never been above straight-up lying.

The media doesn't need any solid reasoning to run these stories. They lie on a regular basis and are almost never held the slightest bit accountable. If really caught in a bad lie, somebody that they were wanting to get rid of anyway will get fired and the network will issue the standard apology/retraction that means less than nothing.

[FBD]

Thanks Sultan.
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