Comments on: The CIA is training landscapers, poolmen, and interior designers

By: Paul D. Alexander

Paul D. Alexander — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:04:12 +0000

Excuse me, but the School of the Americas is down here in Georgia — in Fort Benning, to be precise (I live about 40 or 50 miles north of the fort). In Fort Bragg is the Special Warfare School.

By: Eugene Costa

Eugene Costa — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:59:45 +0000

Israel trains US Assassination Squads in Iraq, a report from 2003:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/dec/09/iraq.israel

By: Carlilse Johnson

Carlilse Johnson — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:04:25 +0000

This is completely absurd.
Sources?

By: Phonk

Phonk — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:13:09 +0000

Who’ behind the assassinations of 100 plus Iraqi academics?
The killing started days after the invasion.

By: Eugene Costa

Eugene Costa — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:19:29 +0000

“Neutralizing” almost always backfires. If the leadership of a “political movement”, particularly in its early stages, hinges on one easily elminated “leader”, it usually is not much of a movement.

That holds whether the “neutralization” is by assassination or getting run over by a truck.

The cowboy wing of the CIA in the past often tried to create “leaders” among their supposed opponents. They set them up, gave them play and press, and then eliminated them. It is part psychological warfare, part trying to make an example, and part wishful thinking.

By the time it gets to that stage, the masses are more easily riled than intimidated.

More important, the real leadership, as in Vietnam, is usually unknown and immune.

Too, it lets the enemy finger characters they want to get rid of.

Phoenix did not work in Vietnam. For every village headman “neutralized” there were ten new enemies made, and most of those targeted were the wrong people.

Ironically, in Vietnam the North Vietnamese had decided it was imperative to eliminate Diem and got the CIA to do it for them, making is a completely different kettle of fish.

By: 1984

1984 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:57:00 +0000

And we never kill, we “neutralize”.

By: Eugene Costa

Eugene Costa — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:36:21 +0000

That is not the point. Assassination never works politically.

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:00:11 +0000

really? what about all of the people who lost their lives because of this? it worked on them.

By: stevieb

stevieb — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:09:41 +0000

You made me look at things in a new say, Nike. And I mean that complementary.

I think it’s safe to say those who vote for John McCain are essentially Nazi’s given McCain’s guaranteed fascist and destructive foreign policy. And anybody admitting to voting for this cretin should be treated accordingly – shamed humiliated, scorned.

Yeah Obama will probably be involved in some fascist war crimes himself – though on a far lesser scale I would feel sure of. And at any rate I have feeling the press won’t hesitate to ask President Obama the tough questions particularly in issues of war and say, like say international law or fiscal responsiblity. Yes, call me crazy but I can see the MSM suddenly discovering it’s moral compass.

Which, as pathetic as it appears, will a good thing I’m sure.

By: Nike

Nike — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:37:26 +0000

It’s like there’s this big prize waiting to be given out for the world’s biggest hypocrites – and Americans are determined to win. If the kind of actions that the C.I.A. are funding in Iran isn’t state-run terrorism, then what is?
Not to worry. The American people KNEW that Chimp was running torture chambers and committing other war crimes BEFORE they rewarded The Torturer with a second term in power, back in 2004. When the majority of a nation gleefully reward men whom they KNOW are in the act of committing war crimes, anything is possible.
God Bless America.