← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Ed Toner
Thread ID: 14566 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-07-25
2004-07-25 16:16 | User Profile
Dear Editor, LEGION;
Your featured article "Ronald Rumsfeld, Pentagon Pointman" was timely, and in a way revealing, but there is another side to Sec. Rumsfeld that members should be aware of.
You start with the paragraph pointing out "the quick military victories in Afghanistan and Iraq as crowning achievements in a long and distinguished career.". Please, we have not achieved victory in Iraq, and to crow about a win over Afghanistan, a stone age Third World nation is laughable.
We first bombarded Iraq and then invaded that nation that had been under our surveillance for over 10 years, and was virtually defenseless from a military point of view. No Air Force, basically just Infantry. Furthermore, we did this based on the obvious bold faced lies that Iraq was a threat to us, had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and was attempting to get yellow cake Uranium for nuclear weapons.
The Mid Eastern nation with the large stockpiles of nuclear weapons of mass destruction is Israel, of course, courtesy of the US taxpayers. Israel also has the means for delivering these weapons with it's huge Air Force, and a fleet of modern long range submarines. Sec. Rumsfeld and his staff are well aware of these facts, yet the free press of this country dare not mention this.
The 911 Commission report details what went wrong, who was responsible, and suggests what to do to prevent similar attacks, but fails to examine the obvious questions - "Why did they do this. Why do they hate us so much as to sacrifice their lives?"
Until these questions are addressed honestly, and corrected, we can expect further attacks and more and more expensive countermeasures that hinder our lives, and our very freedom.
It is not just the Arabs who hate the USA. Our unwarranted attacks on the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq have brought the wrath of most of the world down on our heads. We are becoming more and more isolated in the world of nations, as seen in France when our hero Lance Armstrong was actually cursed and spat upon by spectators, including Germans, who are usually not that demonstrative.
It is convenient and popular to blame the Arabs for all our troubles in the world, but is it the Arabs who run our country? Hardly. Let us examine who Presidents Clinton and Bush placed in senior, critical positions of power.
Samuel Berger, former national Security Advisor, a lawyer who burglarizing the National Archives for highly sensitive, above Top Secret Documents, that some believe implicate the Israelis in the 9-11 attack on the WTC. If the documents merely showed a lapse in the security provided by the Clinton Administration there really wouldn't be any reason for Berger to commit espionage and risk going to jail, as Jonathon Pollard did. Remember, Berger is a lawyer trying to play this off as just another "mistake" "inadvertence". George Tenet CIA Director resigns and his assistant, Pavitt also resigns a day later. Tenet was also Clintons CIA Director.
Rabbi Dov Zakheim, Rumsfeld's Comptroller of the Pentagon and under Secretary of Defense also resigns. There was known to be a high level "mole" in the Clinton Administration that was delivering the most sensitive and classified information to the Israelis. He was referred to as "Dov". The search for this spy was terminated at about the same time as Clinton was being attacked over the Monica Lewinsky matter.
Wolfowitz, Wurmser, Feith, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Zakheim, Kristol, Armitage, and Powell all formed PNAC (Project for a New American Century) in 1997 and joined the Bush Cabal in D.C. in 2001. One year earlier, in 2000 they drafted a document that called for a "Pearl Harbor Type of Event" to initiate a war against Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein.
Show me the Arab in the group above.
For publication,
LCDR Ed Toner USNR Ret. Post 348 481B Jason Place Brick NJ 08724 732-840-4203 [email]captained@comcast.net[/email]
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2004-07-25 17:21 | User Profile
Good work, Ed. That's as close to using the "J" word as is palatable to those folks.
2004-07-25 18:22 | User Profile
Excellent.
2004-07-26 20:55 | User Profile
Ed, After many short messages you wrote a letter anyone would be proud of. I hope the professional veterans print it. As you know, many who have seen death close up prefer that caution be used in deploying US troops and have real concern for the welfare of the average soldier. Paul Wolfowitz and friends do not.
One slight point. I suspect Armitage, who served over 3 years in Vietnam and was wounded, reflected the opinions of his boss, Colin Powell and was not near the advocate the others were.
2004-07-26 21:31 | User Profile
Thanks Ed.
Actually, Powell was a Platoon Leader in VN if I recall.
I flew there as part of MAC for 3 years. Safe duty, flying C-121's Med. Evacuations.
Saw lot's of really shot up guys.
2004-08-09 06:45 | User Profile
Ed Toner,
Great letter!