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Saturday, November 19, 2005 |
Rolling Stone: "The Pentagon now believes that 'combat power can be enhanced by communications networks and technologies that control access to, and directly manipulate, information. As a result, information itself is now both a tool and a target of warfare.'
It is a belief John Rendon encapsulated in a speech to cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1996. 'I am not a national-security strategist or a military tactician,' he declared. 'I am a politician, a person who uses communication to meet public-policy or corporate-policy objectives. In fact, I am an information warrior and a perception manager'. To explain his philosophy, Rendon paraphrased a journalist he knew from his days as a staffer on the presidential campaigns of George McGovern and Jimmy Carter: 'This is probably best described in the words of Hunter S. Thompson, when he wrote, 'When things turn weird, the weird turn pro.''
'We lost control of the context,' Rendon warned. 'That has to be fixed for the next war.'"
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Big Dick by Jesus' General.
ITV: "A former CIA director has claimed that torture is condoned and even approved by the Bush government.
The devastating accusations have been made by Admiral Stansfield Turner who labelled Dick Cheney 'a vice president for torture'."
TimesOnline: "Dick Cheney's steely presence used to be seen as one of the great strengths of the Bush Administration. Not any more."
TortureIsNotUs: "Colin Powell, John McCain and 89 additional Senators support the McCain Anti-Torture Amendment, which bans torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. Sadly, Vice President Cheney is lobbying furiously behind the scenes to stop the ban."
ICH: "The New Worlders - Cheney, Michael Ledeen who, ironically, sits in the 'Freedom' chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI); William Kristol, idiot 'intellectual' editor of the rabid right-wing Weekly Standard; Paul Wolfowitz, author of the Iraq war who now heads the World Bank; and Lewis Libby, recently indicted in the Valerie Plame CIA Leak investigation, among others, built their 'grand vision' on a revolutionary 24-page document, 'Defense Strategy for the 1990s: The Regional Defense Strategy', penned by Cheney in January 1993, which outlined a new foreign policy of pre-emption in order to gain - and maintain - US global dominance."
11:03:45 AM
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