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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:13 PM
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Read the latest shocker from Joe Wilson -- Bombshell (US News)
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 12:14 PM by cthrumatrix
Everyone take a few minutes and read what just broke in breaking news....Wilson is outing the admin on thier schemes....

This is major

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=165511&mesg_id=165511

If this is true, Katy bar the door. From US News and World Report:

Wilson adds ammo to hit war credibility gap

Just as former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's story that Bushies blew his CIA wife's cover to get back at his criticism of the war in Iraq was getting old, he has stumbled on new ammo to hit the administration's credibility. Wilson tells us he plans to circulate the text of a briefing by analyst Sam Gardiner that suggests the White House and Pentagon made up or distorted over 50 war stories.
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But there's more, says Gardiner, a war gamer who has taught at the National War College. Like how defense officials said the first Iraqi unit marines encountered, the 51st Mechanized Infantry Division, had surrendered four days before it actually did. And he says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers gave bad or deliberately incomplete info on several topics. Sure, propaganda has always been used in war to deceive and demoralize the enemy. But these guys went way overboard, Gardiner says. "Never before have so many stories been created to sell a war," he insists. "And they probably didn't need it."
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:14 PM
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1. kick n/t
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:15 PM
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2. READ ALL PDF'S TO THE RIGHT OF THE STORY
or print them out....it's a book!!
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:42 PM
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5. here's a summary from article in US News

Summary
• Clearly, the assumption of some in the government is the people
of the United States and the United Kingdom will come to a
wrong decision if they are the given truth.
• We probably have taken “Information Warfare” too far.
• We allowed strategic psychological operations to.
become part of public affairs.
• We failed to make adequate distinction between strategic
influence stuff and intelligence.
• Message became more important than performance.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:49 PM
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6. Well it's proof that PSY OPS Exists! No Tinfoilhat Stuff there, it's Real
My only question with this blockbuster is that it was in what looked to me like the "Gossip" section of USA Today......Was it carefully planted there, so as not to get attention? Or, did it need to be carefully leaked there because of the overwhelming implications?

The NYT's and WaPo need to pick this up. And, CNN. hmmm.... Its it really as bad as it looks?

It's criminal to me but will the rest of America think so?
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:19 PM
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3. If any of the briefings to congress was under oath, they've perjured...
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 12:19 PM by AP
...themselves.

I remember back when a Bush administration official fought over whether he'd give his evidence to congress under oath. I can't remember all the details though.
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:35 PM
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4. keep this kicked for the afternoon crowd......
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:59 PM
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7. let's get the media or sen/congr. to blow the lid with this story
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Ugnmoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:02 PM
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8. I just emailed this to my Congressman
Please all DU'ers get this out there as quick as possible.
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:03 PM
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9. Similar thread in LBN:
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:06 PM
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10. Locking. Dupe.
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