From today's Froomkin comes this infuriating piece of news:
Bush frequently claims that he changed his Iraq strategy in Iraq and opted for a troop surge after listening to his commanders. He says this notwithstanding the fact that his commanders in Iraq -- as well as the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff-- opposed the surge.Okay, the idiots who promoted this clusterfuck in the first place are responsible for dreaming up the "surge" strategy? And looks who's right in the thick of it all- yes, a Kagan.
So where did the idea come from?
Now Rowan Scarborough writes in the Examiner: "A group of military experts at the American Enterprise Institute, concerned that the U.S. was on the verge of a calamitous failure in Iraq, almost single handedly convinced the White House to change its strategy.
"They banded together at AEI headquarters in downtown Washington early last December and hammered out the surge plan during a weekend session. . . . Then came trips to the White House by AEI military historian Frederick Kagan, retired Army Gen. John Keane and other surge proponents.
"More and more officials began attending the sessions. Even Vice President Dick Cheney came. 'We took the results of our planning session immediately to people in the administration,' said AEI analyst Thomas Donnelly, a surge planner. 'It became sort of a magnet for movers and shakers in the White House.' Donnelly said the AEI approach won out over plans from the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command." (my emphasis added)
Oh, and there's more:
The emergence of AEI as a power player on Iraq belies the notion that neo-conservatives are on the decline in Washington. AEI brags an impressive roster of neo-con thinkers. Former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, an Iraq war architect, arrived at AIE this summer, joining such prominent conservatives as John Bolton, David Frum and Michael Ledeen.I swear to god this makes me want to take a hostage.
With its plan in place, the AEI Iraq team is not sitting still. Keane is an adviser to Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. He has inspected war conditions on two visits. Kagan left for Iraq this week.
Original article in the Examiner by Rowan Scarborough. Arm Chair Generals Help Shape Surge In Iraq What do you bet they coined the name "surge" too? And why the fuck are we paying people in the Pentagon if they're outsourcing war strategy?
51 comments:
I knew where this was going as soon as I saw the oxymoron "military experts at the American Enterprise Institute".
Oy.
Terrifying, eh?
These neocon jokers were 100% wrong on everthing they said to get Bush to invade Iraq.
Yet Cheney/Bush still take their advice.
That the AEI liars are even allowed into the West Wing is an act of treason.
I need to borrow Watertiger's head-banger desk.
But, but, but Polly...they were wrong, but all of their wrong ideas made the cheney/bush cabal millions of dollars! That was the whole purpose, not to actually make things better for anyone not in their exclusive club.
Wretches one and all and they all need to be dragged out into the street by a mob!!! These cretins know better, but pretend not to. Looks like crime, and especially crimes against humanity and the Constitution DO pay, and pay well!
*please scootsch over and let elspeth bang her furrowed brow on the desk for just a sec pls? kthx!*
elspeth
AEI, eh? what a shock.
Not.
Positively emetic.
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