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balantz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 11:53 AM
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McChrystal was Cheney's chief assassin
McChrystal was Cheney's chief assassin

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94884§ionid=3510203



Seymour Hersh says that Dick Cheney headed a secret assassination wing and the head of the wing has just been named as the new commander in Afghanistan.

In an interview with GulfNews on May 12, 2009 Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, said that there is a special unit called the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that does high-value targeting of men that are known to be involved in anti-American activities, or are believed to be planning such activities.

According to Hersh, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) was headed by former US vice president Dick Cheney and the former head of JSOC, Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal who has just been named the new commander in charge of the war in Afghanistan.

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Most of what General McChrystal has done over a 33-year career remains classified, including service between 2003 and 2008 as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, an elite unit so clandestine that the Pentagon for years refused to acknowledge its existence.

On July 22, 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report titled "No blood, no foul" about American torture practices at three facilities in Iraq. One of them was Camp Nama, which was operated by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), under the direction of then Major General Stanley McChrystal.

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An interrogator at Camp Nama known as Jeff described locking prisoners in shipping containers for 24 hours at a time in extreme heat; exposing them to extreme cold with periodic soaking in cold water; bombardment with bright lights and loud music; sleep deprivation; and severe beatings.

When he and other interrogators went to the colonel in charge and expressed concern that this kind of treatment was not legal, and that they might be investigated by the military's Criminal Investigation Division or the International Committee of the Red Cross, the colonel told them he had "this directly from General McChrystal and the Pentagon that there's no way that the Red Cross could get in."

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To hide prisoners or facilities from the ICRC or to deny access to them is a serious war crime. But many US prisons in Iraq have held "ghost" prisoners whose imprisonment has not been reported to the ICRC, and these "ghosts" have usually been precisely the ones subjected to the worst torture. Camp Nama, run by McChrystal's JSOC, was an entire "ghost" facility.

The decision by Obama's administration to appoint General McChrystal as the new commander in charge of the war in Afghanistan and retaining the military commission for the US war-on-terror detainees held in the Guantanamo Bay prison are the latest examples of the new US administration walking in Bush's foot steps with regards to torture and denial of habeas corpus.


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balantz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 11:56 AM
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1. McChrystal is also in responsible for the coverup of theTillman killing, isn't he? n/t
Edited on Sat May-16-09 11:57 AM by balantz

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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 12:08 PM
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5. Makes sense, since he was likely part of the Chain of Command that ordered and committed the murder.
Edited on Sat May-16-09 12:09 PM by tom_paine
Tillman was coming home to speak out and campaign against the Bush Cabal. He was coming home to loudly and with great publicitiy campaign for John Kerry.

He was the ONE GUY the GOP-controlled M$M could not have silenced, due to his unimpeachable character, plus his status as NFL Player and the way his story had already previously been publicized.

He died with a tight pattern of three American bullets in his forehead. His armor was burned and his journal suppressed or destroyed.

This makes perfect sense.

If true, it's very possible that Cheney and the Bushies are still running the military through Gates. It's possible we have an "ancient Rome" situation where Obama is President, but the Bushies control key parts of the govt. still, such as Law Enforcement and the Military.

Whether that is true or not, Tillman was almost certainly murdered by a Right-Wing Hitter, a cutout, a true Hannidiot Believer who would have gladly killed that atheist and "traitor" Tillman if ordered to.

And McChyrstal probably picked the cutout-assassin himself. Bet the assassin got a promotion or two for THAT Bushie errand.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 03:23 PM
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9. Bet the assassin got a promotion or two for THAT Bushie errand.
or he may have just ended up maggot entree du jour. Those guys don't like leaving any loose ends.
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HowHasItComeToThis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 04:31 PM
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12. cheney wants to bring down our govt
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balantz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 04:44 PM
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13. Cheney already helped in that process that has been going on for decades.
How much lower can our government be brought down I shudder to think. What the right-wing Eisenhower warned us of has come to pass and our government has proven to be increasingly an arm of corporate empire. With the help of the corporate-media-mouthpiece propaganda "our" government turns against us in favor of their true masters.

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HowHasItComeToThis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 05:10 PM
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14. SO SAD, SO TRUE
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 11:58 AM
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2. Ooops.
I hope Obama is watching these watchers.
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 12:07 PM
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4. We the People are watching
meaning you and me and a whole lot of other folks!

:kick:

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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 11:59 AM
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3. Sounds like the right man for the job in Afghanistan.
The bridesmaids will never know what hit them.
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 12:09 PM
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6. Wow - just when I think I can't be anymore shocked by Obama's actions
he goes one step lower.

I think its one of those situations where an abused kid becomes more devoted to his abusing parent than the loving one.
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The Hope Mobile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 12:34 PM
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8. He's GOT to know what these people are capable of
He's got access to all the intel. Its all way too incestuous for me. Makes me nauseous.
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 12:14 PM
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7. Yup. Informative link.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 03:38 PM
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10. Does Obama think we're not going to notice stuff like this?
Edited on Sat May-16-09 03:39 PM by jgraz
Or does he just not care?
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 03:41 PM
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11. More on McChrystal...
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-17-09 11:41 AM
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15. k*r Excellent - must read.

This is, well, what can I say. The story is definitive.

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