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» Former Bush officials teaching course on Iraq War ‘decision-making’ Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby, two key players in the George W. Bush administration, are teaching a course this fall on decision-making in the 2003 Iraq War.

The course, titled “The War in Iraq: A Study in Decision-Making”, will examine some “key strategic decisions” during the war, according to a description by the Hertog Foundation in D.C., which will offer the week-long course.

Wolfowitz, who served as deputy defense secretary between 2001 and 2005, and Libby, who served as national security adviser to then-Vice President Dick Cheney and Bush during that time, both advocated for the war.

“History takes on a different aspect when viewed not from years removed and with the consequences of decisions taken known, but from the viewpoints of the actual policymakers as decisions approached and as unexpected events, rivalries, counter-moves, mistakes, and imperfect understandings intervened,” a course description reads.

Full article here
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/246378-former-bush-officials-teaching-course-on-iraq-war-decision-making

[KittyWampus]

1. OMFG. These criminal never go away. They are rehabilitated so quickly. Makes me sick.

[KittyWampus]

2. Typhoid Mary teaches course on public health.

[KittyWampus]

3. Charles Manson teaches course on how to win friends….

and influence people.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Little by little, these clowns will change attitudes toward the Iraq War.

They tried to change the textbooks to ease opinions/attitudes toward George W., so why not lecture their "truth" to students...one changed mind after another?

Actually, it might be interesting to sit in on a couple of those classes. Comedy show would be a more appropriate term to use than lecture...a barrel of laughs.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. Training up the next generation of fascist war criminals. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

6. I'm sure they're doing a heckuva job ! nt

[NV Whino]

7. It's a sad day when you have to preface a headline with "not the onion."

I believe the hand basket has reached its destination.

[JEB]

8. WTF! Only in the USA. Shameful.

[JHB]

9. Executive-level Wingnut Welfare

Hertog has been associated with various conservative and neoconservative think tanks and publications. He is a chairman emeritus of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and board member of the American Enterprise Institute and the Club for Growth. He also helped found the Shalem Center in Israel. He was a part-owner of now-defunct The New York Sun, was a part-owner of The New Republic, and is a board member of Commentary. Inspired by John Lewis Gaddis and Paul Kennedy's Grand Strategy Program at Yale University, Hertog funded similar programs at Duke University, William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY and elsewhere.[2]

Hertog has also funded the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative, a research program Columbia University that uses historical analysis to confront problems in world politics. Participants include high-ranking government officials, scholars, and graduate students.[3]

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On November 15, 2007, Hertog was awarded a National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony with U.S. President George W. Bush.[4] The citation accompanying the award praised Hertog for "enlightened philanthropy on behalf of the humanities. His wisdom and generosity have rejuvenated institutions that are keepers of American memory."[5][6] He is also a winner of the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2010.[1][7]

In 2012, as well as chairing the N-YHS board, he "spends his days as president of the Hertog Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization, and as chairman of the Tikvah Fund, which promotes Jewish thought and ideas"[1] The latter fund was established by Zalman (Sanford) Bernstein.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hertog

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10. Always good to review disastrous decisions and learn from them!

[Gothmog]

11. A course on how to make bad decisions

Only a neocon would like this course