Friendly Fire (Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba)

ABCnews.com ^ | 1 May 2002 | David Ruppe

[Moose4]

My apologies if this has already been posted here--I searched and didn't find it. I got this linked off another board I hang out on and found it...I don't know, interesting? Disturbing?

}:-)4

[tet68]

He needs more precious bodily fluids.
I'm gonna take a shower, call me when the cheese is about ready.

[Lexington Green]

"The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after," says Bamford.

... so next year we'll find out who killed JFK...

[FreeperinRATcage]

Hmm...ya wonder if JFK was killed to STOP stuff like this?

[Lewite]

Maybe JFK (known as a wothless no good Son of a) was killed to end this diobolical scheme.

[stands2reason]

Maybe they wanted this to go forward and he stood in the way...who knows? All I can say is, damn. Just...damn.

[stands2reason]

There were reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote conservative during the election.

An unusual item set amidst all of this planned treason. How is this on a par with conspiring to kill US citizens?

[Sci Fi Guy]

well if its printed in a book then it must be true. /sarcasm.

this reminds me of those news reports a while back about the massacre during the Korean war. ABC news even took the guy who revealed it back to Korea, where he could tearfully recount the event. The reporters who broke the story won prizes/awards for the story.

That story was true too. /sarcasm

[BlackVeil]

It is interesting, and it is disturbing. But note that these were plans, which went nowhere. That type of mindset exists in every security service - lets make mayhem to show our worldview is right - and it is up to the authorities to squash it.

[sailor4321]

Or because he wouldn't go ahead with it, corrupt though he was....

[denydenydeny]

Raw meat for the crazy people here.

[sailor4321]

"Although no one in Congress could have known at the time," he writes, "Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs had quietly slipped over the edge."

Typical radical leftist BS of the day: as if the joint chiefs weren't specifically asked to come up with a plan and asked to "think outside the box". Considering the stuff the Kennedy gang did on their own to try to kill Castro, I believe they would have gone ahead with the plan if they thought they could get away with it...

The radical left later used the same "blame it on the military" to justify their change in course in Vietnam. Clark Clifford was "shocked, shocked" to learn "the military had no plan for how we were going to win the war" --- when in fact it was the President's responsibility to have such a plan rather than some flunky in the Pentagon.

I suspect the real objective of this book is not to expose history but to undermine the Bush administration's steps to protect the country from attack by enemy elements already here...

[sailor4321]

It isn't. The author simply wants to make sure you associate the concept of "military take over" with the "right wing" (i.e., Republican Party").

[sailor4321]

The military are asked to have contingency plans of all sorts. Wouldn't surprise me that 1) such plans were prepared, 2) there were also plans for invading England and, oh, I dunno, repelling an invasion from Mars.

[MinorityRepublican]

The military are asked to have contingency plans of all sorts. Wouldn't surprise me that 1) such plans were prepared, 2) there were also plans for invading England and, oh, I dunno, repelling an invasion from Mars.

Exactly, so this is nothing.

The reason that we fought so well during the Persian Gulf war was because we had a plan repelling the Soviet invasion in the middle east.

All we had to do was to put the troops in place, and win the war decisively.

[Icthus]

Interesting timing on the release of this news....with probable military action in Iraq in the not to distant future and an upcoming election. The Dems are pulling out all the stops to defeat the Republicans.

Sad part is...plenty of Americans will buy into it.

[MinorityRepublican]

Sad part is...plenty of Americans will buy into it.

Most Americans do not even vote. So there's some hope.

[demlosers]

Gee look who this guy Bamford worked for:

James Bamford

BIO

James Bamford is the author of THE PUZZLE PALACE, a national bestseller when it was first published and now regarded as a classic. He was until recently Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and has written investigative cover stories for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-bamford-james.asp

[Isle of sanity in CA]

IMHO, this guy's a nut.

From Jpost.com In several tendentious asides, Bamford tells his readers that Israel has received $100 billion or more in US aid since 1967, and that Ariel Sharon "set off the bloodiest upheaval between Israeli forces and Palestinians in a generation, which resulted in a collapse of the seven-year peace process... " He also accuses Israel of "extensive war crimes."