Posted on 08/27/2006 3:24:38 PM PDT by ikez78
Lt. Col. "Buzz" Patterson (audio) interview on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism, GWOT, Iraq and the role of bloggers
Lt. Col. "Buzz" Patterson, author of 3 books and former military aide to President Clinton, recently made himself available for an extended interview with Regime of Terror.
Patterson called upon his military/intelligence contacts and background as he talked about al-Qaeda's strength during 90's and today, the war in Iraq and wider Global War on Terror, bloggers and Saddam Hussein's support of terrorism.
Patterson predicts that the intelligence paper of the former Iraq regime, currently held in the HARMONY database and elsewhere, will "connect a lot of the dots" on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism.
Lt. Col. Patterson also discusses al-Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri's trip to Baghdad in 1998 (in which he received $300,000, possibly from Saddam Hussein himself), Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's medical trip to Baghdad in 2002 and the terrorist training that took place in the Salman Pak camp.
His new book, "War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror ", is available for pre-order through amazon.com and is set for a January 16, 2007 release.
Interview is also available for download here.
(Excerpt) Read more at regimeofterror.com ...
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Thank you for the ping! BUMP!!!
Fascinating...
no problem. Hope I did ok in my first (of hopefully many) interviews on the subject.
Yes, I DO question their patriotism!
I've heard Col. Patterson on the radio a few times when he was promoting his first book. He was an important and scary witness to the Clinton presidency (his stories about how Clinton would refuse to take urgent calls from Berger and his indecisivness are bone-chilling [and worthy of further investigation as to what was going on specifically]) but to call him a "top military advisor to President Clinton" is a bit of a stretch. Neither Berger or the CIA director had the predident's ear it seems.
Nobody had Clinton's ear but the vast number of left-wing bimbos. Patterson was the carrier of the 'football' for a period during the Clinton years. I suspect he knows where all the skeletons are. Col. Patterson, watch your back!
He was above Berger and Freeh. For two years he had the launch codes on nukes. There was him and four others (one from each branch of the military) who went EVERYWHERE with Clinton to update and inform him on all military decisions. I'd consider that a top military advisor, wouldn't you?
The Dots will go to her husband, the pervert rapist.
No, I wouldn't. Clinton saw good men like Col. Patterson as schlubs. If Clinton wouldn't respect Berger, Freeh & Tenent, he wasn't going to do so with men such as Col. Patterson. Updating & informing doesn't equate to advising. In the interview Col. Patterson makes the same point as I make.
Ok, maybe a semantical problem then.
What would you consider an appropriate title?
Are you implying that Clinton had NO military advisors?
Harmony (Project Harmony): Army National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC)-managed database for foreign documents exploitation (DOCEX) and translations management, begun in 1997. Harmony is the single, comprehensive bibliographic reference database for primary-source foreign technical and military documents and their translations. It is supplemented by the Deployable Harmony Application (DHA), a field system that facilitates management of foreign documents captured during operations. DHA was used in OEF and OIF. Same as FORMSS/Harmony network.
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There, all fixed.
Cheers!
Arkin does get some very good info a lot of times, even though I disagree with a lot of his conclusions on stuff I really admire the contacts he must have.
any feedback on what I should have asked and didn't would be appreciated.
OUTSTANDING & TREMENDOUS!
Outstanding interview Mark. You let Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson talk. You did not talk over him. (At the end of the interview you did not ask him, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?")
Tremendous clarity, context, information & optimism from Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson. Thank you for your service to this great nation. (A great example of a potential future representative that was mentioned in the interview)
Thanks for your service also, Mark. Outstanding interview.
Thanks. Greatly appreciate the comments and I really look forward to the generation of Iraq vets running for office. Should be interesting, as will the full release of the HARMONY docs.
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