WayzUp
03-03-2007, 07:48 AM
Dug this up via Digg & found it pretty thought-provoking. She makes a lot of good points at least and most of them make a lot of sense to me in terms of what our administrations true intentions were (and are!) in the Middle East now and going forward. :ohmy:
Karen Kwiatkowski Interview audio (http://www.truthdig.com/images/avboothuploads/Kwiatkowski_TruthDig.mp3)
Interview transcript (http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070227_pentagon_whistleblower_on_the_coming_war_ with_iran/)
Karen U. Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and in a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays that denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. She has said that she was the anonymous source used by Seymour Hersh and Warren Strobel in their respective exposés of pre-war intelligence.
Colonel Kwiatkowski has an MA in Government from Harvard and a MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska. She has a Ph.D. in World Politics from Catholic University; her thesis was on overt and covert war in Angola, titled A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine. She has also published two books about U.S. policy towards Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (US Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (Air University Press, 2001).
Karen Kwiatkowski profile - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kwiatkowski)
THOUGHTS???
Karen Kwiatkowski Interview audio (http://www.truthdig.com/images/avboothuploads/Kwiatkowski_TruthDig.mp3)
Interview transcript (http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070227_pentagon_whistleblower_on_the_coming_war_ with_iran/)
Karen U. Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and in a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays that denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. She has said that she was the anonymous source used by Seymour Hersh and Warren Strobel in their respective exposés of pre-war intelligence.
Colonel Kwiatkowski has an MA in Government from Harvard and a MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska. She has a Ph.D. in World Politics from Catholic University; her thesis was on overt and covert war in Angola, titled A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine. She has also published two books about U.S. policy towards Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (US Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (Air University Press, 2001).
Karen Kwiatkowski profile - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kwiatkowski)
THOUGHTS???