This comes from Richard Clarke so I'm sure certain individuals are going to automatically discount this, but yeah. Maybe I was bored or maybe I found this intriguing while watching the interview at school, but these seem fairly plausible (at least more than your random left-wing the United States is out to violate kittens conspiracy). Some of these concern future plans, some of these concern current issues. My memory may also be foggy, considering I saw this interview seven hours ago and it may be slightly inaccurate - I don't exactly have a source with the interview handy.
1. There are plans to begin suppression of "trouble cities" in Iraq in the middle of November. Predictions are that these operations will hold a fundamental risk to the lives of many American troops involved in them. More observant individuals may note that these plans seem to fall right after a certain federal election day.
2. The higher-ups in Iraq blame Washington for making the situation in Iraq really bad. When noting some of the more messed up strategies that have been tried and failed (Fallujah among others), they were acting under pressure from Washington despite the fact they knew such strategies would fail.
3. A number of Republicans in Washington do not support what Bush is doing but will not say anything publicly for fear of censure (well, Clarke said because they wanted Christmas cards, but that was just a joke
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I think there was some other disturbing element, but I can't remember. Sorry. Anyway, if anyone knows where a copy of the September 21 episode of The Daily Show is, the interview is on that.
1. There are plans to begin suppression of "trouble cities" in Iraq in the middle of November. Predictions are that these operations will hold a fundamental risk to the lives of many American troops involved in them. More observant individuals may note that these plans seem to fall right after a certain federal election day.
2. The higher-ups in Iraq blame Washington for making the situation in Iraq really bad. When noting some of the more messed up strategies that have been tried and failed (Fallujah among others), they were acting under pressure from Washington despite the fact they knew such strategies would fail.
3. A number of Republicans in Washington do not support what Bush is doing but will not say anything publicly for fear of censure (well, Clarke said because they wanted Christmas cards, but that was just a joke
I think there was some other disturbing element, but I can't remember. Sorry. Anyway, if anyone knows where a copy of the September 21 episode of The Daily Show is, the interview is on that.