Posted on 03/24/2006 5:32:03 AM PST by Kaslin
Newsweek needs to go back to making up stories about Korans being flushed down the toilet ... then they can cover the riots that ensue.
Leave covering the important stuff to jveritas ...
Love it! I cancelled my subscription after 9-11. Although I knew their bias, it was ok, and I love news magazines.
When I realized just how biased they were, I stopped it.
Now I take the "Weekly Standard"
I'm saving your graphic!
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Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents (link above)
Documents from the Harmony Database (link above)
The translation can be a bit tricky though. We were given cd's and tapes to learn Arabic, but when we got to Iraq, we had Iraqis look at us like we were from Mars when we spoke Arabic. Well it turns out we were taught Egyptian Arabic, when Iraqis have their own dialect.
A good example is: it would be like a southern gentleman trying to decipher what a valley girl is saying.
Newsweek? Blecch.
Who ya gonna believe Saddams Generals or the MSM ? Gee. Lemme think.
Naw, no way.< /sarcasm>
From the MSM? Nada, nill, zero, zilch
General Sada's book is an eye opener and I highly recommend it
Not always. There was a time when the CIA (and its precursor the OSS) was a great organization with a lot of respect for the chain of command that usually did its job very well.
It went downhill in the '70s when an obscure Senator named Frank Church set out to all but destroy the capability of the CIA to do its job. We were left with a risk-averse organization that couldn't do much more than anaylze satellite imagery and try and cover its own behind.
To this day we still don't have the human intelligence capability that we once did, and Church is the man most directly to blame for that.
I have said so many times if someone has something that he was not allowed to have, but doesn't want to give up what better way is there to hide it then to move it where it can not be found. Saddam played the left for the fools they are, but he sure didn't fool me
Well if you follow the case of the 20th high jacker you can see how the CIA messed the whole thing up
"that couldn't do much more than anaylze satellite imagery"
I have reason to believe that is likely that they aren't very good at that either.
Paging Carl Cameron of Fox News. Mr. Cameron please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Or Adam Clymer.
When you read "Iraq had no WMD's" in the media, red flags should be popping up all over the place like chiggerweed.
I saw the article and threw the magazine in the trash.
My best use for them is to gather as many as I can get, take them out to the boonies, and see how many copies my various caliber handguns can go through.
Another fun thing it to make a black powder cannon and put a stack of these rags on top, light the fuse and watch a huge confetti shower.
No- it wasn't always this way. Look up info on Senator Frank Church and see what he and his commission did. They got on some "moral high ground" kick- by first deciding agents couldn't get info from "bad guys" in the field. Try and find a lick of common sense in that approach.
This was the beginning of the softer-gentler CIA. Since then- it's been all downhill.
Do we have an actual copy of the tapes available? Perhaps jveritas can give his opinion. I don't really trust Mr. Sada or Newsweak on this.
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