Expert Working Groups and Military Senior Advisor Panel
On June 16, 2004 Freeman was a signatory to a statement, Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change Official Statement that called for the defeat of George Bush in the 2004 election. Some excerpts:
"From the outset, President George W. Bush adopted an overbearing approach to America's role in the world, relying upon military might and righteousness, insensitive to the concerns of traditional friends and allies, and disdainful of the United Nations. Instead of building upon America's great economic and moral strength to lead other nations in a coordinated campaign to address the causes of terrorism and to stifle its resources, the Administration, motivated more by ideology than by reasoned analysis, struck out on its own. It led the United States into an ill-planned and costly war from which exit is uncertain. It justified the invasion of Iraq by manipulation of uncertain intelligence about weapons of mass destruction, and by a cynical campaign to persuade the public that Saddam Hussein was linked to Al Qaeda and the attacks of September 11. The evidence did not support this argument."
"The Bush Administration has shown that it does not grasp these circumstances of the new era, and is not able to rise to the responsibilities of world leadership in either style or substance. It is time for a change."
Freeman also signed a Letter to President Bush from U.S. Diplomats--April 30, 2004
How could Freeman [and there are others] be part of a "bi-partisan" review of our policy towards Iraq? I fault Baker for including such people on the working groups that produced the actual report. It is one thing to have a different perspective and another to have a partisan, political agenda.
Good Lord. So Baker chose those who would testify to what he [Baker] had already decided would be the "consensu".
I'm assuming Baker is working for a power/entity other than this country's and the PUTUS? Who is Baker working for and what is their agenda?