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

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

[hummingbird]

Thanks. And tell Laurie she has a lot of fans here!

Another Mylroie fan...does she have a newsletter or website? Thanks for your post, Matchett-PI.

[evad]

Mara Laisson: (sp?) NPR-type comments

Thanks PI..
I like the way you succinctly wrapped up the essence of the 2 NPR-ites contributions ;-)

[ontos-on]

Mara Laisson: (sp?) NPR-type comments.

smile

Actually, the correct spelling of Mara's surname is "Liar-son."

[evad]

Technically, the rats say there was no plan for the post war occupation..

Good technical point but they did at the time argue that the war plan was ill designed and faulty, not enuf troops, quagmire...etc RAT stuff.

They may actually have a point about post war. I personally think we forgot to dot a few "I's" in that plan but we're adapting, learning and improving.

[evad]

Actually, the correct spelling of Mara's surname is "Liar-son."

Ah sooo..I didn't know she was Japanese.

[prairiebreeze]

you have mail

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

During an interview this morning with Katie Couric, Suskind quotes Paul O'Neill after his firing, "I'm rich, there's nothing they can do to hurt me."

Perhaps O'Neill heard one too many colleagues and CEO's chuckling behind his back. That, coupled with his enormous ego, and maybe because he couldn't stand to have the last line on his resume read, "Terminated".

Any bets on how long it will be before O'Neill is offered and accepts a visiting teaching gig at Harvard Business or Wharton?

[OldFriend]

Saw a newscast in the middle of the night and there was a photo of the heading on the document....clearly marked SECRET.

Will there be the same outcry as the media outing of Valerie Plame?

Hah!

[mhking]

I was a guest on NPR's "PowerPoint" last night, and the O'Neill statements came up. I pointed out, much to the chagrin of the caller who challenged me, that O'Neill's so-called "plans" were drawn up by the Clinton Administration, and passed (along with many other plans, suggestions and paperwork) to the Bush Administration en-total when Clinton left office.

All Administrations do that when they change. It is up to the incoming Administration to determine whether to use those plans or not.

Iraq didn't become truly a front-of-the-table issue until (most likely) the afternoon of 9/11.

The caller tried to push the issue, but was shut down by the host (the rather friendly and likeable Carmen Burns - formerly of WXIA - come to find out we know a lot of the same people; the broadcast business in Atlanta is pretty small to begin with), especially after I pointed out that the Clinton Administration had acted using that same data on multiple cases in the past (including the convenient Impeachment Day attack in December 1998).

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[evad]

Brit Hume is up there with James Taranto (WSJ Opinionjournal Best of the Web guy)

Thanks for the heads up. I'm not familiar with Taranto and will take a look at some of his stuff.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Fantastic, mhking!

[jempet]

CBS took advantage of the fact alot of people were watching football, and ran their advertisment for 60 minutes every chance they could get. So even if you didn't watch 60 minutes, you still got the impression that Bush planned the Iraq war the first day he was in office from the commercial. Since the Superbowl is hosted by CBS, you can be assured of more of the same. Dirty tactics by the DNC, nothing new here.

[xzins]

Perhaps if during his tenure the Treasury Secretary, O'neil, had not been out looking for "evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," HE might have been able to do the job of "treasury secretary" -- a job at which he abjectly failed.

[prairiebreeze]

Good for you Michael!

Prairie

[adam_az]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/

[GraniteStateConservative]

It reflects poorly on Bush (or Cheney if Cheney chose him) that he was ever hired. Why pick a Treasury Secretary who doesn't support your total economic plan. He has never been a supply sider. Why was a non-supply sider hired?

[Peach]

You too.

[Valin]

Ping

[Mo1]

O'Neil has turned to the dark side. Question really is when it happened,

I don't know a whole lot about O'Neill, so I don't know what to say