See this:
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On 10/26/10, Keith In Tampa <keithintampa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ellen Knickmeyer writes for the Daily Beast. Another George Soros funded
> spin web-zine.
>
> Young Ellen writes about events that took place over four years ago, and
> long before the troop surge instituted by the Bush Administration,
> *sans*Donald Rumsfeld.
>
> Moreover, no one lied. On January 10, 2007, during the Presidential
> Address to the Nation, President Bush stated that "80% of Iraq's sectarian
> violence occurs within 30 miles of the capital. This violence is splitting
> Baghdad into sectarian enclaves, and shaking the confidence of all Iraqis."
>
> Again, more far left, Moonbat rehtoric, lies and spin Michael.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:08 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> *WikiLeaks Exposes Rumsfeld's Lies
>> *by Ellen Knickmeyer
>> October 25, 2010 | 7:31am
>>
>> *Recent revelations by WikiLeaks show how top American leaders lied,
>> knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world.
>> Ellen Knickmeyer on the carnage she saw as Baghdad bureau chief.
>>
>> *In the dark morning hours of Feb. 22, 2006, a group of unknown attackers
>> detonated bombs in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, bringing down the
>> golden dome of a revered Shia Muslim shrine.
>>
>> A few hours later, I drove through Baghdad and watched the country descend
>> into civil war. Then the Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post, I
>> drove with Iraqi and American colleagues to Sadr City, the sprawling slum
>> on
>> the outskirts of the city. We watched hundreds of black-clad religious
>> militiamen, waving their AK 47s in the air and calling for revenge, in
>> what
>> would be the start to a campaign of sectarian killing and torture.
>>
>> During visits to Baghdad's morgue over the next two days, I saw Sunni
>> families thronging to find _WalmartAd_the bodies of loved ones killed by
>> the
>> militias. The morgue's computer registrar told the grim-faced families and
>> me that we would have to be patient; the morgue had taken in more than
>> 1,000
>> bodies since the Samarra bombing, and was way behind on processing
>> corpses.
>>
>> Here's the thing, though: According to then-Secretary of Defense Donald
>> Rumsfeld and his top commanders, it never happened. These killings, these
>> dead, did not exist. According to them, reporters like myself were lying.
>>
>> "The country is not awash in sectarian violence,'' the top U.S. commander
>> in Iraq, Gen. George Casey said, on talk show after talk show, making the
>> rounds to tell the American home-front not to worry. Civil war? "I don't
>> see
>> it happening, certainly anytime in the near term," he said, as he denied
>> the
>> surge in sectarian violence.
>>
>> Casey had taken his own drive around
>> Baghdad<http://osd.dtic.mil/news/Mar2006/20060319_4546.html>after the
>> bombing of the Samarra mosque and had seen, not executed bodies in
>> the streets but "a lot of bustle, a lot of economic activity. Store fronts
>> crowded, goods stacked up on the street."
>>
>> Donald Rumsfeld held a news conference at the Pentagon to say that U.S.
>> press reports of killingssuch as mine that estimated 1,300 dead in the
>> immediate aftermath of the bombing, based on what I had seen at the
>> morgue,
>> interviews with Sunni survivors, U.N. and Iraq health officialswere
>> calculated "exaggerated reporting." Iraqi security forces, he
>> said<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030700792.html>,
>> "were taking the lead in controlling the situation," everything he assured
>> his listeners was "calming."
>>
>> Here's the thing, though: According to then-Secretary of Defense Donald
>> Rumsfeld and his top commanders, it never happened. These killings, these
>> dead, did not exist.
>>
>> American journalists in Baghdad were under attack not just from Iraqi
>> insurgents, but, at least verbally, from our own country's civilian and
>> military commanders as well.
>>
>> After the mosque bombing, I had the twisting-in-the-wind experience of
>> attending the weekly press briefings at the Green Zonethis war's four o'
>> clock folliesand have the military spokesman insist that things were
>> great,
>> implying that the problem wasn't the executed and mutilated bodies now
>> found
>> in the streets; the problem was people like me.
>>
>> Thanks to WikiLeaks, though, I now know the extent to which top American
>> leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and
>> to
>> the world, as the Iraq mission exploded.
>>
>> The American troops, who were risking their lives on the ground, witnessed
>> and documented it
>> themselves<http://wikileaks.org/id/56F678BE-3F65-44D9-BEDF-65E365007F75/>
>> .
>>
>> Heavily redacted, the log entries offer surreal but chilling glimpses of
>> the chaos that followed the Samarra bombing on Feb. 22. Within hours of
>> the
>> bombing, U.S. troops reported gunmen attacking; open street fighting
>> between
>> Shia and Sunni militias; rocket-propelled grenade attacks on mosques;
>> assassinations and kidnappings.
>>
>> Later, one U.S. military patrol happens on militia members dumping bodies
>> on the side of the street. The killers speed away, leaving the American
>> soldiers with a grim discovery: "bodies shot in the face…still warm,"
>> according to one log.
>>
>> _WalmartAd_Iraq was not "calming," as Rumsfeld would have it. Rather, this
>> was sectarian war, and, over the next few months, the Bush
>> administration's
>> effort to convince the world that everything was hunky-dory in Iraq became
>> less and less sustainable as the slaughter continued. According to the
>> synopsis of the WikiLeaks documents by The New York Times, the death toll
>> in
>> 2006 reached beyond 3,000 one month.
>>
>> Late last year, I sat in on a seminar at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School
>> of Government led by a former Bush official in Iraq and heard her say
>> matter-of-factly that more than 1,000 people died in one day in the
>> immediate killing after the Samarra bombing.
>>
>> But as the WikiLeaks documents show, Casey and Rumsfeld must have known
>> that all along, owing to the accounts from their forces. Despite the
>> statements of the top U.S. commanders at the time, it wasn't the
>> journalists
>> in Baghdad who were lying.
>>
>> *Ellen Knickmeyer is a former Washington Post bureau chief in Baghdad and
>> Cairo. Before coming to the Post, she was the West Africa bureau chief for
>> The Associated Press. This year, she graduated from Harvard University's
>> Kennedy School of Government.
>>
>>
>> *
>> http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-25/wikileaks-shows-rumsfeld-and-casey-lied-about-the-iraq-war/full/
>>
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