Karen Kwiatkowski, columnist at lewrockwell.com and retired USAF lieutenant colonel, discusses the Bush administration’s early Iraq War planning – well before they played up the WMD threat and sold the war to Americans; how the Office of Special Plans leaked classified information to cooperative journalists willing to press the case for war; the OSP’s dissolution soon after the war started – since its raison d’être was fulfilled; unpopular neocons who must attain power through appointed, rather than elected, government positions; and the ease-of-victory factor that explains why some wars are fought, and others aren’t.
Background articles on Karen Kwiatkowski’s interaction with Douglas Feith’s Office of Special Plans:
2006 CSPAN interview by Brian Lamb
“Career Officer Does Eye-Opening Stint Inside Pentagon”
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