Insider fires a broadside at Rumsfeld's office

Asia Times ^ | Aug 7, 2003 | Jim Lobe

[leprechaun9]

"Air Force Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski, who worked in the office of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith until her retirement in April."

How convenient! Take your pay, get out of the service and become a pimp of the media by taking a shot at those who are left to do the work of the defense of our country!

[Asclepius]

Kwiatkowski's broadside coincides with the appearance in neo-conservative media outlets, notably the Wall Street Journal, of defenses of Feith, who is widely seen as the Pentagon's most likely fall guy if it is forced to shoulder blame for bad intelligence and planning. The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair has pressed President George W Bush to fire Feith for several months, according to diplomatic sources.

Broadside indeed. More like blindside. More like revenge of the clerks, the apparatchik class striking back hard at the Rumsfeld machine using their sympathizers in the press. Here is a link to the so-called neo-con defense of Feith. I would provide some porno links too in honor of my communion's new Bishop, but I fear I would get banned.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003840

[pierrem15]

The women's a tinfoil-hat fruit cake of the first order, who would rather see Belgian commie lawyers triumph and her own country defeated just to prove her own views correct.

See here

She's lucky she was allowed to retire before being court-martialed.

[moneyrunner]

Your assignment, is to compare and contrast the post war resistance withing German and Iraq after major military operations ended.

Otherwise, Ms. Lt. Col's accusations are useless.

[Ispy4u]

Is your son in Iraq?

[billbears]

She's lucky she was allowed to retire before being court-martialed.

Oh yes, how dare her. To work in the Armed Forces and after retiring not tow the Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/Perle line? Shocking, simply shocking. Here's the article that they're probably talking about.

Career officer does eye-opening stint inside Pentagon

Karen Kwiatkowski: Archives on LRC

[x1stcav]

"a subversion of constitutional limits on executive power and a co-option through deceit of a large segment of the Congress".

This was written by an attorney. Probably a leftist lawyer at that. Or somebody looking for a TV/Book deal.

[Ispy4u]

You don't need to answer. I already knew you were a troll.

[moneyrunner]

Yessir, that’s what the congress and the American people were led to believe: that Saddam has ICBMs that were ready to launch in 45 minutes.

Please call home, your village is missing its idiot.

[hgro]

Where do these loonie tunes come from? I'm afraid the bureaucratic pig sty in D.C. that has been been stinking up and polluting the country is in for some real reform in the D.O.D. when Rumsfeld can devote full time to the cleanup.

[Consort]

Kwiatkowski

[Diddle E. Squat]

3 guesses as to who she voted for in 2000...

[beckett]

Lots of harsh rhetoric but no meat -- once the "disclosures of wrongdoing" begin her charges get foggy and confused.

Yawn.

[CWOJackson]

I think their secretary used to post here. Claimed to be a civilian at the Pentagon with access to all intelligence data at the disposal of the JCS and bashing the President and SecDoD constantly.

[Eva]

I wonder if this woman is a lesbian. She has some partisan agenda and that seems to be the most likely.

[q_an_a]

These same leftist insiders think that civilians should run the military, but they should do it from other offices like the white house under Klinton or Donna Shalala at HHS. Don't let a civilian republican run and organize DOD. What constitution are they reading?

[CWOJackson]

Remind you of anyone?

[moneyrunner]

"The Belgians have quietly frightened the potential war criminals in the Bush administration, and those from past imperialist administrations."

An example of her other thoughts. It's testimony to the fact that women have a tough time getting fired in government service.

Thanks for the link. I have known some weak sisters in the military, but she is a leading candidate for the funny farm.