ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject: Iraq-National Intelligence Estimate |
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Finally, there is the long awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. The last was 2002 and it seems that the recent one was kept under wraps for fear of bad press, prior to the Nov. elections. Principally responsible for keeping it under wraps (and thus undermining the American people's right to know in a timely fashion) was Negroponte, crooked as he is.
This NIE has many clear headed findings. Mostly, they concern with how the American invasion is directly responsible for inflaming tribal hatreds and causing massive bloodletting. The blame is laid at the U.S of A's doorstep, despite how so many would just say "America is doing good" and we can't be responsible for their behaviour. Clearly not so, says the NIE.
You can read it here. http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20070202_release.pdf
I would also think it would be good to read the NIE of the United States, I posted a few weeks ago. Of course, they don't produce one on themselves, but a former Cia, NIE writer, produced one that I think at a minimum highlights various quandries within American policy and organization (political and social) which will cause an uncertain future. You can read it here.
http://billtotten.blogspot.com/2007/01/republic-or-empire.html
Here are the comments about the military.
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| It is possible that the US military could take over the government and declare a dictatorship. {5} That is how the Roman republic ended. For the military voluntarily to move toward direct rule, however, its leaders would have to ignore their ties to civilian society, where the symbolic importance of constitutional legitimacy remains potent. Rebellious officers may well worry about how the American people would react to such a move. Moreover, prosecutions of low-level military torturers from Abu Ghraib prison and killers of civilians in Iraq have demonstrated to enlisted ranks that obedience to illegal orders can result in their being punished, whereas officers go free. No one knows whether ordinary American soldiers would obey clearly illegal orders to oust an elected government or whether the officer corps has sufficient confidence to issue such orders. In addition, the present system already offers the military high command so much - in funds, prestige, and future employment via the military-industrial revolving door - that a perilous transition to anything resembling direct military rule would make little sense under reasonably normal conditions. |
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