Admiral Mike Mullen’s speech to lawmakers last week accusing Pakistan’s intelligence service of colluding with the Haqqani insurgent group was inaccurate and overstated, according to anonymous officials speaking with the Washington Post.
A senior Pentagon official with access to intelligence files on Pakistan said Mullen’s language “overstates the case,” because there is little evidence of direct control or cooperation with the Haqqanis. Mullen suggested otherwise and cited the recent 20-hour attack on the US Embassy in Kabul as a case in point.
“The Pakistani government has been dealing with Haqqani for a long time and still sees strategic value in guiding Haqqani and using them for their purposes,” the Post quoted the official as saying. But “it’s not in their interest to inflame us in a way that an attack on a [U.S.] compound would do.”
A senior aide to Mullen, Capt. John Kirby, said the accusations were designed to influence the Pakistanis to sever ties and crack down on the Haqqani network. “I don’t think the Pakistani reaction was unexpected,” he said.
Mullen’s critique of Pakistan’s alleged proxy war were hypocritical in nature, given the America’s own funding of terrorist proxies and abuse of Pakistan’s alliance with the US. But hypocritical may not be the worst of it if his very serious accusations were knowingly inaccurate.
And in related news "CIA Documents: US Drastically Overestimated Soviet Capabilities." Same old strategy. Fool me once… But Americans love to be made fools by their government.
US war officials lying to congress!!! say it isn't so!! ….business as usual ….
“But hypocritical may not be the worst of it if his very serious accusations were knowingly inaccurate.”
There are liars who create darkness and those who are fooled into darkness, with mental darkness being a pretense of good hiding misery. But, why waste emotional capital trying to separate liars from fools, for their both a danger to life and limb, both to be avoided at all cost.
Intelligence by this world’s standard is speed of thought. For the more intelligent one is, the greater their knowledge of good and the greater their ability to lock us in mental darkness by a pretense of good.
But logic and wisdom are not born of intelligence, quite the reverse, for to weigh out the morality of a thing, to know right from wrong, this requires slow and careful thought.
I believe you are on to something that needs to be looked into.. But I don't believe we will ever succeed in separating out the nettlesome issue of exercising intelligent approach and solutions versus using a moral approach.. Just look at the torture issue.. Is it smart to torture knowledgable adversaries or try to cajole or bargain with them to learn what they know… or whether those in business should fiddle their taxes and books to save paying the gov. and to attract investors. unfortunately, the rot has seeped into our education systems and great universities.. "We will educate you to be smart and get what you want …..not weak and backward like the moral and honest fools and peasants you see in the streets"
Allen Dershowitz [Harvard] has advocated that the police should be able to obtain "torture warrants" so they can torture those in their custody…. HERE in AMERICA…!!! But aren't those being tortured inclined to admit ANYTHING true or otherwise… and din't the Salem witches admit to being witches, an offense for which the penalty was to be BURNED [ALIVE!!!] while tied to a stake, rather than continue being dunked in water [suffocated].. the same method we are CURRENTLY using on our captives… Actually. our government and those it employs have used far worse methods like raping children while their MOTHERS [the target of the intelligence effort] are forced to watch and hear their screams]
"In an interview with the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph published Wednesday, former US General Antonio Taguba said that photographs the Obama administration is seeking to suppress show images of US soldiers raping and sodomizing Iraqi prisoners. Taguba, who conducted the military inquiry of prisoner abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 after some photos of US soldiers torturing prisoners became public, said that among the photos are images of soldiers raping a female prisoner, raping a male detainee, and committing “sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and phosphorescent tube,” according to the Telegraph.
Gen. Taguba said even the description of the photos is explosive. “These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency,” Taguba said. “The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it.”
Taguba’s revelations expose the deceit of President Barack Obama’s claim, used to justify the photos’ suppression, that they “are not particularly sensational, especially when compared to the painful images that we remember from Abu Ghraib.” In all, it is believed that there are some 2,000 photographs depicting about 400 cases of US military personnel torturing Iraqis and Afghans at seven military prisons. The Bush administration, and now Obama, have sought to block publication of the images." http://current.com/176gu4c http://en.humanrights-iran.ir/news-17986.aspx
ODD, I cannot find a mainstream source for Hirsh's accusations…. In the past the video of his speech was widely available, but NOW it is all but impossible to find…
"Hersh gave a speech last week to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front of women in the prison, and the Pentagon has tape of it. The speech was first reported in a New York Sun story last week, which was in turn posted on Jim Romenesko's media blog, and now EdCone.com and other blogs are linking to the video. We transcribed the critical section here (it starts at about 1:31:00 into the ACLU video.) At the start of the transcript here, you can see how Hersh was struggling over what he should say"
See Hirsh's speech here: http://en.humanrights-iran.ir/news-17986.aspx
Funny only available from IRAN now… Gotta Luvvit
US code 18, section 1001?
They lie I think almost ever singel thing they say is a lie or exageration.As for the raping of children and tourture America is eather becoming the worlds most evil country os is having the soldiers told to do these sick acts.Well they are not soldiers or men a real man acts human a nd a real soldier is more than a person that can learn to shot a gun.They should be of high moral standards at all times.And Bush and Oduma show they are sick sicker than hitler and just as bad as bibbi.Not letting the crimes be shown they might as well encourage them.They like to keep American people blind and lied to by there elected officials and MSM.The soldiers are guility of war crimes.If the same standards were used like were on the Nazis at Nurenberg they along with the government would be hung.Being orderd by seperiors was no excuse and should not be.We a humans no right from wrong.Nazi got away with it for some many years but they are still being found at 80 90 years old and jailed.America will not get away with its crimes nor will there allies for another 50 let alone 80 top 90 years.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! An Amerikan politician/military whore lying? Please, please, please say it ain't so!
Do we ever recieve truth from the District of Criminals? Remember how Bush's lies got us to invade the sovereign country of Iraq. Remember Colin Powell standing up in the UN and lying through his teeth. If it wasn't for Antiwar.com and a few other publication, we might as well get our news from Disney World. We don't have any allies. There's countries that will sell themselves to the central government we serve for our counterfeit dollars. Stop the flow of money and America will find out how many allies it has. We're sending Contractors (mercenaries) to build the American Empire. Considering illegal aliens can join the military with a promise of citizenship after putting in their time, I wonder how many soldiers wearing the American uniform are Americans.
So if I say I make half a million dollars a year on a loan application, am I lying or "purposely exaggerating the truth"?
Can a private citizen be prosecuted for "purposely exaggerating the truth" in a court of law or a Congressional hearing?
"All pigs are created equal, but some are more equal than others." George Orwell, 'Animal Farm'