[Matchett-PI]

Why are the people who made the mistakes that left us vulnerable on September 11 still in important positions in the CIA and State?

Why is the CIA constantly leaking information that constantly undermines the president?” ...

Middle East experts like CNN’s Iraq analyst and author of the best-selling book “The Threatening Storm,” Kenneth Pollack, and Patrick Clawson, the deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, earn Ms. Mylroie’s scorn in her new book for what she says is a readiness to adjust their view on Iraq to fit the prevailing view of the day.

She is particularly critical of an essay in the January/February 1999 issue of the foreign policy journal Foreign Affairs, “The Rollback Fantasy,” which argued against working with the democratic Iraqi opposition to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

[goldstategop]

Laurie Mylroie is a prophet without honor in her own country. Subsequent events have proven her right and people still don't listen!

[Just mythoughts]

Saddam's reign of terror was aided by none other than the UN with its Oil for Food program. Whatever Saddam did he got cover from Russia, France, Germany among many others.

The Clinton Administration's policy of "EQUALIZE ALL NATIONS" with Maddie Albright at the helm under the UN did nothing to stop Saddam either.

Looks more like a worldwide conspiracy of socialists and communists and most Americans were caught sleeping.

[Prodigal Son]

One of the co-authors of “The Rollback Fantasy,” Gideon Rose, said Ms. Mylroie’s views are suspect.

“The vast majority of serious professional observers think she’s completely wrong,” he said, noting that most observers acknowledge that Saddam is bad guy and has been involved in terrorism in the past, “but the notion that Saddam has been connected to major terrorism in the ’90s past the assassination attempt on President Bush is not widely held by serious professionals.”

Mr. Rose said that this view is “one of the things that separates serious professionals from the amateurs.”

Don't ya just love that type of BS argument? The guy is basically saying he, himself, doesn't have a clue but lots of people whose butt he kisses on a daily basis disagree with this woman so therefore she must be wrong. Scientific American did a similar hit piece on Bjorn Lomborg's Skeptical Environmentalist in their magazine. They never pointed out which part of his book was false, instead they relied on three "experts" to say how badly his book offended them and how all "respectable" scientists in their field had a different opinion.

At the end of the day, this woman might be wrong but this is an underhanded way of taking a jab at her. Point out where she's wrong- don't just say "a lot of pompous a$$es with whom I work look down their noses at her and therefore you should as well".

[nightowl]

I've read about 1/2 of her new book, Bush vs the Beltway. Great reading. I recommend it to one and all. I just bought her book "The War Against America" (Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks). I have not read any of it yet.

She talks about the anthrax attacks and uses quotes from Bob Woodwards's book "Bush At War" (Woodward got his quotes from REAL National Security Council notes). According to the notes Tenet, Cheney & Cheney's chief of Staff, Scooter Libbey, believe the attack was state sponsored (Iraq). Cheney said in the meeting for them not to say in public that it was Alqaeda or Iraq because we were not in a position to do anything about it right then. We were in the war in Afganistan at that time.

[Matchett-PI]

Pingggggg!!!! Thought some of you would find this of interest!

[FairOpinion]

Iraq & Laurie Mylroie ping