Secret Assassination Program is Key in Iraq, Woodward Says
September 10th, 2008Oh sure, Bob.
During the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program ran from 1967 through the Tet Offensive and until the Americans fled Vietnam. I seriously doubt that an assassination program is working in Iraq.
More likely, the cash bribes that the U.S. has been paying to insurgents to stay home, or kill their religious enemies has more to do with the “success” in Iraq—whatever the word means—that these imbeciles are making so much noise about.
I didn’t know what Woodward meant by a Manhattan Project-like effort. What does that mean? That a massive allocation of resources was poured into the development of… some new assassination/counter insurgency hardware? This is described below as, “Secret operational capabilities developed by the military to locate, target and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent leaders.”
I went looking for an answer and landed on Prison Planet, where they’re wondering the same thing. Their death ray answer may be related, in terms of PSYOP, but I doubt that’s it.
Via: CNN:
The dramatic drop in violence in Iraq is due in large part to a secret program the U.S. military has used to kill terrorists, according to a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward.
The program — which Woodward compares to the World War II era Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb — must remain secret for now or it would “get people killed,” Woodward said Monday on CNN’s Larry King Live.
“It is a wonderful example of American ingenuity solving a problem in war, as we often have,” Woodward said.
In “The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008,” Woodward disclosed the existence of secret operational capabilities developed by the military to locate, target and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent leaders.
National security adviser Stephen Hadley, in a written statement reacting to Woodward’s book, acknowledged the new strategy. Yet he disputed Woodward’s conclusion that the “surge” of 30,000 U.S. troops into Iraq was not the primary reason for the decline in violent attacks.
“It was the surge that provided more resources and a security context to support newly developed techniques and operations,” Hadley wrote.
When this was hinted at by an interviewee (more likely than not Woodward himself) on the “Sixty Minutes” television broadcast on Sunday night here in the USA, I did have something more than a shadow of a suspicion that this super-duper-effective “sekrit strategery” was just more Kool-Aid.
And what Woodward fails the mention is that this “secret strategy” results in the killing of dozens of innocent Iraqi men, women and children for every guilty insurgent or terrorist killed. God bless America.
And if that same “collateral killed to terrorist killed” ratio existed in the streets of America, there would be hell to pay. We as Americans, value our own lives, but put little value on the lives of others in this world. Good reason why we are more and more hated around the world.