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May 5, 2008
That guy at Rummy's left hand is a terrorist.
with the sour face.
As the NY Times wrote in a big article last month, quite a few retired military officers (all of whom happen to be network news "commentators") are regularly granted access to Pentagon officials in exchange for cheerleading the Bush administration's rhetoric. Refuse to pimp for the administration, lose your access. It's that simple.
One of these characters is retired Lt. General Thomas McInerney. Quoting the Times article about this bunch:
The group was heavily represented by men involved in the business of helping companies win military contracts. Several held senior positions with contractors that gave them direct responsibility for winning new Pentagon business. James Marks, a retired Army general and analyst for CNN from 2004 to 2007, pursued military and intelligence contracts as a senior executive with McNeil Technologies. Still others held board positions with military firms that gave them responsibility for government business. General McInerney, the Fox analyst, for example, sits on the boards of several military contractors, including Nortel Government Solutions, a supplier of communication networks.
McInerney, however, has decided to take things one step further. Appearing opposite a nearly-salivating interviewer last week on Fox News, this man openly advocated a U.S. campaign of terrorism in Iran.
Question: If we do have evidence, and apparently we do, according to officials, that Iran is killing U.S. troops in Iraq or supporting that, why haven't we struck by now?McInerney: It beats me, Greg. I don't know why we haven't. They have killed hundreds of Americans with their explosively formed projectiles [EFPs], and that's why I think we have to take action. And here's what I would suggest to you. No. 1, we take the National Council for Resistance in Iran off the terrorist list that the Clinton Administration put them on, as well as the Mujahideen-e Khalq that are at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Then I would start a tit-for-tat strategy, which I wrote up in the Wall Street Journal a year ago. For every EFP that goes off that kills Americans, two go off in Iran. No questions asked, people don't know have to know how it was done. It's covert action. They become the most unlucky country in the world. And then I would start moving U.S. carrier battle groups into the region, as well as some of our stealth aircraft, just to make sure they understand, don't try to kick off a major insurrection come October and September, October to impact our elections. They are deliberately ratcheting up and we’ve got to counter that.
Need I mention that you can practically see the Fox reporter's boner through his desk as McInerney lays out this plan?
Fox Military Propagandist Promotes Terrorist Murder, on Daily Kos
The Spin War (Patt Morrison, KPCC)
