-Caveat Lector- http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Insider% 20Notes%2edb&command=viewone&op=t&id=7&rnd=18.524169921875 Deep Throat Returns: Insider Notes from the Pentagon
03-06-2003 Status Report I’ve been out of pocket. Here’s the news. In the past few days, a series of security alerts popped up on OSD computer screens. One unattended gym bag left in the parking lot, a box of bolts left in the center courtyard by a work crew, and yesterday, a black book bag left at the foot of the Metro escalator. The last one shut down Metro stops to the Pentagon for a few hours. OPSEC is rising on the reservation, maybe alongside employee absent- mindedness. The Army Chief of Staff and the Deputy Secretary of Defense engaged in an amazingly public catfight over the resources and manpower required to occupy Iraq. For all that, neither one of them, or anyone else in the Pentagon or the White House will tell Congress how much this will cost, how long it will take, or who is paying for it. Rumsfeld has started making the same statements in every interview and press event "If it comes to war…" and "No decision has been made yet." They say to understand politicians you have to know when they are lying. It’s not that hard… when you see their lips moving, that’s the killer clue. The Kansas City Star says the Pentagon is violating a 1998 congressional mandate that blood be taken from every deploying soldier to serve as a baseline for later analysis of exposure to chemicals. This law was imposed in order to help prevent the fiasco of the Pentagon’s handling and analysis of Gulf War Syndrome 11 years ago. Instead of collecting blood, the military health policy is to have each soldier complete a one page form where he or she answers true-false questions about his or her general health. Sounds like a plan to cover somebody. Probably not soldiers and veterans, though. Ted Koppel finally ran an indepth piece last night on the Project for a New American Century, their 1997 roadmap for a new Middle East, and the PNAC charter members' new day jobs. Jobs like like Secretary of Defense, his deputy, the Vice President, his special assistant, NSC Middle East Director and the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs. Surprising, I guess, unless you’ve been reading this column and other quiet reminders of the hijacked ship of state inside the beltway. It isn’t about oil, we are told. Not directly, but is it about the dollar, and propping up the ever weaker US economy by ensuring global business stays greenback and not Euro-backed? If Bush team takes us to Baghdad, they will need to do it before the economy tanks, the weather gets hot, and our soldiers’ families start to ask the hard questions about the difference between patriotism and "just following orders." Time is also needed to adapt the spin to whatever the aftermath looks like, and get the re-election campaign going. The Pope says the proposed attack and occupation of Iraq is not a great idea. But why should debatable evidence of terror links, lack of direct Iraqi provocation or threat to the United States, inadequately substantiated accusations of Iraq’s vast remaining supplies of potent chemical and biological weapons, and the likelihood of innocent civilians being killed stop us from having a good war? I’m not Catholic, but many traditional conservatives and lots of liberals are. The anti-war protests are beginning to ramp up, with all the directional control of a sawed off shotgun. Shoot, fire, aim. Lucky for the Iraqis they’ll be liberated by precision guided munitions instead. Send care packages to our troops. Adopt a soldier. Let them know you are thinking of them. Do your job. Maybe, in the morning after, we will all be able to look each other in the eye, acknowledge the honor we see there, and wake up as part of the solution in a Middle East transformed by the steady vision of our political leadership. OK, it’s a long shot. Here’s a more practical alternative. 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