{"id":2616,"date":"2006-01-24T00:29:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T07:29:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-24T00:29:19","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T07:29:19","slug":"catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/24\/catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

If anybody out there needs to catch up or get a good refresher course in who lied us into war in Iraq and how, may I recommend this great article by former DIA officer W. Patrick Lang<\/a>, “Drinking the Kool-Aid<\/a>” from the summer of 2004? It is a detailed retelling of the activities of the neoconservatives<\/a> in the office of the vice-president<\/a>, the Office of Special Plans<\/a>, the Policy Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Group<\/a> and the way they accomplished their end-run around the regular intelligence agencies in order to make grown men frightened<\/a> enough of Iraq to warrant invasion.<\/p>\n

Please note also that accused Niger uranium forger<\/a> and pardoned Nicauragua harbor miner<\/a> Duane “Dewey” Clarridge is featured as working with the Iraqi National Congress<\/a>\/Rendon<\/a> Group<\/a>, and was the origin of the plan<\/a>, referred to in this piece<\/a> by David Corn about his meeting with “Prince of Darkness” Richard Perle<\/a>, to invade Iraq with only 40,000 thousand men<\/a> – except in Clarridge’s earlier version it was only going to be 5,000 INC “soldiers<\/a>” and a couple of special forces guys.<\/p>\n

Boy, now that<\/em> would have been a real cakewalk<\/a>, huh? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If anybody out there needs to catch up or get a good refresher course in who lied us into war in Iraq and how, may I recommend this great article by former DIA officer W. Patrick Lang, “Drinking the Kool-Aid” from the summer of 2004? It is a detailed retelling of the activities of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}