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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
So then they are both guilty? And one of them just kept it up after 9/11.
What is your angle here? The CIA sucks and this Op-Ed piece is wrong and the current administration didn't and isn't still screwing with intelligence to further an agenda that is not based on reality?
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Yeah, they are both guilty. One of them wasn't President when 9/11 happened though, which is why so many people blame Bush, but ignore Clinton, Bush 1, Reagan and Carter.
I really don't know what to say about the article. The whole 'fraud'....goes back a lot longer than just the Bush administration. There were repeated warnings by field agents serving in Asia during the late 70's about a rise in Islamic fundamentalism. Warnings that the CIA just 'ignored'....and instead shut down numerous posts in the Middle East and throughout Asia, and got rid of the field agents who were warning them. Everything the CIA screwed up on came back to kick them in the ass on 9/11. If this guy has served in the CIA for 23 years, he knows exactly what happened in the late 80's....how the CIA and the US government completely ignored Afghanistan and basically GAVE Islamic terrorism a place to grow. And he knows EXACTLY how a bunch of incompetent fools have been running the place for the past 30 years. But of course, he won't mention that.
So do I believe him? Why should I believe someone who has been part of the problem for the past 23 years? We all know Saddam had nothing to do with Al Queda, and we all know that the intelligence regarding the Iraq War is anywhere from sketchy to blatantly misleading. But Afghanistan WAS a problem. Islamic terrorism IS a problem. And sitting around twiddling your thumbs and blaming Bush for the 'WOT' isn't exactly solving anything.
Personally, I think this guy has a obvious agenda, and obvious bias, and for some reason he ignores what happened in Afghanistan in years prior that directly led to the problem we're dealing with now. Everytime a Canadian soldier dies, you can thank the US government for completely screwing up in Afghanistan, when they ALREADY had won over the hearts and minds of the people, yet they still left. Or rather, they just ignored the place.
Sure helped a lot.
I wonder if the author and his sidekicks thought that Bin Laden was a "
small, lethal, disjointed and miserable opponent" back in '89 when they ignored what he was doing.