Myth-Jack THIS: McCain's Ties to the Violent Right: Why should I care?

Saturday, October 25, 2008

McCain's Ties to the Violent Right: Why should I care?

[Comment on John Dinges's bombshell story on HuffPo

[Because] he hasn't changed his mind! Kissinger and that whole cabal of neocon crazies advising McCain were directly involved in our jacking of Chile. We supplied the hardware of war, we supplied the lists of supporters of democracy to be rounded up, tortured, and "disappeared." We trained the generals, we provided Pinochet with a complete plan for "economic shock therapy," the original experiment of that horrible method.

Doesn't this make the whole Ayers gambit look like a Karl Rove attack that is now backfiring spectacularly? They tried to make strengths of their weaknesses, and ended up pointing us right to their macabre method.

I nearly fell over when Sister Naomi Klein quoted the former Chile foreign minister in her recent Chicago speech:

"And so, the Chicago Boys were born. And it was considered a success, and the Ford Foundation got in on the funding. And hundreds and hundreds of Latin American students, on full scholarships, came to the University of Chicago in the 1950s and "60s to study here to try to engage in what Juan Gabriel Valdes, Chile"s foreign minister after the dictatorship finally ended, described as a project of deliberate ideological transfer, taking these extreme-right ideas, that were seen as marginal even in the United States, and transplanting them to Latin America. That was his phrase"that is his phrase"

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/6/naomi_klein

Posted 01:05 PM [ET] on 10/24/2008

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Zelikow Authored the US National Security Strategy, What Could He Gain from Myth-Jacking the Report?

Rumsfeld leaned heavily on the FBI and CIA to find any shred of evidence linking the Iraq government to 9/11, but they weren't able to. So he set up his own fact-finding group in the Pentagon, the Office of Special Plans that would provide him with whatever shaky connections it could find or surmise.

Feeling confident that all plans were on track for moving aggressively in the world, the Bush Administration in September of 2002 published the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." The official policy of the U.S. government, as proudly proclaimed in this major document, is virtually identical to the policy proposals in the various white papers of the Project for the New American Century and others like it over the past decade.[It wasn't known at the time that Zelikow was the author.]

www.crisispapers.com

Zelikow's Figleaf for Torture (The Infamous Textbox of Page 146)

Detainee Interrogation Reports
Chapters 5 and 7 rely heavily on information obtained from captured al Qaeda members. A number of these "detainees" have firsthand knowledge of the 9/11 plot.

Assessing the truth of statements by these witnesses--sworn enemies of the United States--is challenging. Our access to them has been limited to the review of intelligence reports based on communications received from the locations where the actual interrogations take place. We submitted questions for use in the interrogations, but had no control over whether, when, or how questions of particular interest would be asked. Nor were we allowed to talk to the interrogators so that we could better judge the credibility of the detainees and clarify ambiguities in the reporting. We were told that our requests might disrupt the sensitive interrogation process.

We have nonetheless decided to include information from captured 9/11 conspirators and al Qaeda members in our report. We have evaluated their statements carefully and have attempted to corroborate them with documents statements of others. In this report, we indicate where such statements provide the foundation for our narrative. We have been authorized to identify by name only ten detainees whose custody has been confirmed officially by the U.S. governement.*

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*Those detainees are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, Riduan Isamuddin (also known as Hambali), Abd Rahim al Nashiri, Tawfiq bin Attash (also known as Khallad), Ramzi Binalshibh, Mohamed al Kahtani, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al Ani, Ali Abd al Rahman al Faqasi (also known as Abu Bakr al Azdi), and Hassan Ghul.

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McCain's Ties to the Violent Right: Why should I care?

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