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Former CIA officer says US policies helped create IS

1. Galbraith is, quite simply, a liar.
2. Analysts who briefed GWB were routinely impressed by his interest in subjects covered and his enthusiasm to understand more. It was, in fact, GWB himself who requested the lengthy in-depth briefings that came to be known as "deep dives."
[h=3]Permitting Iran to Arm Bosnia Was Vital, U.S. Envoys Testify ...[/h]www.nytimes.com/.../permitting-iran-to-arm-bosni...The New York Times


May 31, 1996 - Peter W. Galbraith, the United States Ambassador to Croatia, and ... that the Iranian arms, shipped through Croatia to the Bosnian Muslims, ...


[h=3]INVESTIGATION INTO IRANIAN ARMS SHIPMENTS TO ...[/h]www.gpo.gov/.../CRPT-105hrp...United States Government Printing Office


INVESTIGATION INTO IRANIAN ARMS SHIPMENTS TO BOSNIA ______ October 9, ..... Ambassador Galbraith, according to his own testimony, informed the .

If a man lies about one thing, he's automatically a liar about other things? If that's the case, we'd be very hard put to find anyone - inside or outside of politics - who can be trusted. Again, how many on the Right lied about Iran-Contra - does that mean that they're automatically liars about anything else they say?

And I have no problem with GWB being referred to as a highly intelligent man - he certainly was. No argument there. But a person can be highly intelligent and simultaneously highly incurious about the world around him...and it sure seems that Bush was indeed incurious about the world around him.
 
If a man lies about one thing, he's automatically a liar about other things? If that's the case, we'd be very hard put to find anyone - inside or outside of politics - who can be trusted. Again, how many on the Right lied about Iran-Contra - does that mean that they're automatically liars about anything else they say?

And I have no problem with GWB being referred to as a highly intelligent man - he certainly was. No argument there. But a person can be highly intelligent and simultaneously highly incurious about the world around him...and it sure seems that Bush was indeed incurious about the world around him.

In my experience liars lie. Your conclusion that GWB was "incurious" is purely the product of false propaganda. In office he was intensely curious.
 
In my experience liars lie. Your conclusion that GWB was "incurious" is purely the product of false propaganda. In office he was intensely curious.

Really? In my experience, if someone is really, truly curious about other nations, if he has the time and the money to do so, he goes to those other nations. And if he's not curious, if he just likes staying home, he does so. GWB spent over a quarter of his presidency at his ranch in Texas.

I've known many a very intelligent man who could care less about traveling overseas...and you know better than I that what one reads or sees on the screen is a poor substitute indeed for actually having been there.

And when it comes to "liars lie", yes, some lie more than most...but have you never told a lie? Of course you have, esp. considering your career - it was a matter of life or death. What's more, people are sometimes put into a position where they're essentially forced to lie. Take Clinton, for instance: if you're standing in front of Congress with all the TV cameras of all the major networks focused on your face, are you going to admit you got a blowjob from a woman not your wife? Maybe you would...but the vast majority of husbands (including myself) would lie through their teeth and say, "Hell, no!"

Again, just because someone who has lied about something says something else you don't like doesn't mean that it's automatically a lie...and GWB's apparent lack of curiousity about other nations and other cultures seems to back up what Galbraith said.
 
Really? In my experience, if someone is really, truly curious about other nations, if he has the time and the money to do so, he goes to those other nations. And if he's not curious, if he just likes staying home, he does so. GWB spent over a quarter of his presidency at his ranch in Texas.

I've known many a very intelligent man who could care less about traveling overseas...and you know better than I that what one reads or sees on the screen is a poor substitute indeed for actually having been there.

And when it comes to "liars lie", yes, some lie more than most...but have you never told a lie? Of course you have, esp. considering your career - it was a matter of life or death. What's more, people are sometimes put into a position where they're essentially forced to lie. Take Clinton, for instance: if you're standing in front of Congress with all the TV cameras of all the major networks focused on your face, are you going to admit you got a blowjob from a woman not your wife? Maybe you would...but the vast majority of husbands (including myself) would lie through their teeth and say, "Hell, no!"

Again, just because someone who has lied about something says something else you don't like doesn't mean that it's automatically a lie...and GWB's apparent lack of curiousity about other nations and other cultures seems to back up what Galbraith said.

I do not consider disguising the truth in the service of my country to have been lying. Otherwise, considering my career, I had no more precious professional asset than my reputation for direct candor and honesty. Clinton admittedly faced an extraordinary situation, but it was a situation created by his own previous dishonesty.

I'll not debate what are the outward signs of a curious mind; I don't think there are any. I can only repeat the direct personal experience of people I trust: GWB was intensely curious and an avid student.
 
I do not consider disguising the truth in the service of my country to have been lying. Otherwise, considering my career, I had no more precious professional asset than my reputation for direct candor and honesty. Clinton admittedly faced an extraordinary situation, but it was a situation created by his own previous dishonesty.

I'll not debate what are the outward signs of a curious mind; I don't think there are any. I can only repeat the direct personal experience of people I trust: GWB was intensely curious and an avid student.

Avid student, sure - and very intelligent, too. Intensely curious - maybe, but not about other nations or cultures. I guess you and I will have to agree to disagree on this one.
 
Why do some ALWAYS blame America for ill in the world, you know like the community organizer does.

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Why do some ALWAYS blame America for ill in the world, you know like the community organizer does.

Yeah, those damn America haters in the CIA!

Do you plan on making a post that's not some BS platitude, followed by a terrible jpeg cribbed from some ultraconservative website?
 
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