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By David Swanson

The following is a remarkable interview of Karen Kwiatkowski who retired from the active duty USAF as a Lieutenant Colonel in early 2003. Her final assignment was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary for Policy Near East South Asia (NESA) Policy directorate. In her responses below, Kwiatkowski describes the manipulation of intelligence on Iraq and Iran and what it would take to avoid an attack on the latter.

I began the interview by asking about Undersecretary read more

By David Swanson

An interview of Allison Hantschel.

AUDIO 30 Minutes:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/allison.mp3

David: This is David Swanson with Allison Hantschel, the blogger of the blog site, First Draft http://www.first-draft.com , and the author of the book “Special Plans, the blogs on Douglas Feith and the faulty intelligence that led us to war.” Allison, it is good to talk to you. How are you doing?

Allison: I’m doing good, thank you so much for having me.

David: read more

By David Swanson

Aiding a nation against a foreign invasion is not grounds for war. The US aided France against Germany and still brags about it.

WMD possession is not grounds for war. The US has more of them than anyone.

The motivation for attacking Iran was laid out in 2000 by the PNAC, and as early as 1992 in defense planning guidance — written for then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney by then-Pentagon staffers I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, World Bank Chief Paul Wolfowitz, and read more

By David Swanson

With Jimmy Carter’s book a best seller and the Iraq War a top political concern, many Americans may have an interest right now in thinking about Israel and Palestine. I’d like to recommend to anyone with that interest picking up a copy of a short and brilliant book by the British philosopher Ted Honderich called “Right and Wrong and Palestine, 9-11, Iraq, 7-7.”

“7-7,” for Americans who haven’t memorized that number, is the date of the read more

By David Swanson

A majority of Americans supported attacking Iraq, but now a majority of Americans say it was the wrong thing to do and that they were lied to. If you are among those who supported the attack on Iraq but now believe you were mistaken, then you have one step up on our president – he’s never publicly admitted a mistake in his life. In fact, he once demonstrated the difficulty he has in even imagining being wrong by unsuccessfully attempting to recite the following wise saying: read more

By Sam Harris, Truth Dig

Editor’s Note: At a time when fundamentalist religion has an unparalleled influence in the highest government levels in the United States, and religion-based terror dominates the world stage, Sam Harris argues that progressive tolerance of faith-based unreason is as great a menace as religion itself. Harris, a philosophy graduate of Stanford who has studied eastern and western religions, won the 2005 PEN Award for nonfiction for The End of Faith, which powerfully examines read more