Reply #41: I agree in part but this was real [View All]

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I think a lot of the preoccupation with an Iran attack after this time was non productive.

But Zbig didn't go before Congress to debunk a storyline. This was serious stuff. The actions of
Gates, deliberately fumbling the ball on the "Kuds Force" was telling and then Pace, interviewed
by VOA in the South Pacific, totally undermining Bush's arguments and certainty was a huge clue.
Had Bush disagreed with him, Pace would have been honor bound to resign. It was quite something
and, imho, quite real. The rest of the war talk was an afterthought. If one doesn't agree on
Gates actions of non support and Pace's defiance, then Brzezinski's actions don't connect but
it's compelling to me. We may know some day.

Check this out. Barry Grey was the only reporter to vigorously pursue the story. Here are his
comments on the lack of coverage:

"Thus Brzezinski opined that a US military attack on Iran would be an aggressive action, presented as though it were a defensive response to alleged Iranian provocations, and came close to suggesting, without explicitly stating as much, that the White House was capable of manufacturing or allowing a terrorist attack within the US to provide a casus belli for war.

It is self-evident that such testimony at an open congressional hearing from someone with decades of experience in the US foreign policy establishment and the closest ties to the military and intelligence apparatus is not only newsworthy, but of the most immense and grave import. Any objective and conscientious newspaper or news channel would consider it an obligation to inform the public of such a development.

Yet neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post carried so much as a news brief on Brzezinski’s testimony in their Friday editions. Nor did USA Today or the Wall Street Journal. All of these publications, of course, have well-staffed Washington bureaus and regularly cover congressional hearings—especially those dealing with such burning political questions as the war in Iraq." http://wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/brze-f03.shtml

Why, indeed, didn't they cover it. Great story.