Posted on 09/09/2008 1:09:28 PM PDT by fontoon
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The dramatic drop in violence in Iraq is due in large part to a secret program the U.S. military has used to kill terrorists, according to a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward. Bob Woodward on Larry King Live Bob Woodward's book, "The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008," came out Monday. The program -- which Woodward compares to the World War II era Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb -- must remain secret for now or it would "get people killed," Woodward said Monday on CNN's Larry King Live. "It is a wonderful example of American ingenuity solving a problem in war, as we often have," Woodward said. In "The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008," Woodward disclosed the existence of secret operational capabilities developed by the military to locate, target and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent leaders. National security adviser Stephen Hadley, in a written statement reacting to Woodward's book, acknowledged the new strategy. Yet he disputed Woodward's conclusion that the "surge" of 30,000 U.S. troops into Iraq was not the primary reason for the decline in violent attacks. "It was the surge that provided more resources and a security context to support newly developed techniques and operations," Hadley wrote. Woodward, associate editor of the Washington Post, wrote that along with the surge and the
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let’s just hope Leahy is not let in on the secret. If he is it will be above the fold NY Times the next day.
The special-ops (black-ops?) guys don't wear those jackets with big yellow letters on them like some FBI or ATF raid to identify the good guys from the bad.
UAVs (armed and un-armed) don't fly low and loud! They fly high and silent...and effectively deadly.
Woodward should be on trial for treason. This, in my opinion does not fall under free speech. It's like the warning here on FR: "loose lips sink ships"
Woodward is trying desperately to discredit the surge and everything else related to the Bush administration.
Former Lieutenant Bob Woodward USNR, aid to CNO Admiral Thomas H. Moorer in 1969, would of course have been familiar with the Phoenix program in a different counter-insurgency conflict. It’s predictable that he would assume the same tactical means would be employed in the present conflict.
Question is, so what?
The dramatic drop in violence in Iraq is due in large part to a secret program the U.S. military has used to kill terrorists...The program...must remain secret for now or it would "get people killed," Woodward said Monday...
Impeccable logic from Mr. Woodward.
ROTFLOL
They started it. I don't much care what we are doing in order to finish it.
Our innovation is in response to their innovation. Our innovation involves killing those who need to be killed, but killing as few as possible. Their innovation involves killing as many people as they can without discrimination.
There is no moral equivalence here. None. Zero. Nada.
Woody is a cancer growing unabated on the tuchus of the Republic.
I think you may have just answered my “So what” question. This could be fodder for an October surprise.
Believe it or not, Woodward is not a leftist. I don’t know what he is, but I don’t think he fits any category at all. He is definitely out there.
The democrats argued that it was because the sunnies and shiites stopped fighting - the surge was a failure.
Now it seems a secret weapon that only kills there “freedom fighters” has been developed.
What will Obama say now.
And these programs are Top Secret (SCI) so who is the leaker???
How ‘bout a coupla good ‘ol Marine snipers? Won’t take many to “get some”!
bttt
Message: Yes they are killing terrorists in Iraq. This is called war and the idea behind war is to kill enough of your enemies soldiers that your enemy quits and stops fighting. That's what we did in Iraq and there is name for the result. It's called victory.
If it would get people killed why is Woodward is alive?
...and why is Woodward’s revealation about out secret capabilities any different than some eeevil Bushco operative outing blondsuperspyvixen Valerie Plame?
I think the secret weapon is 308 caliber.
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