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Originally Posted by matthew330
Host, I think I've made perfectly clear that I don't give your threads/posts anymore than a quick scan at best. For whatever reason (perhaps because I noticed that without any antagonism Elphaba's already managed to become a victim of censorship) I thought I'd give it a shot with this thread. For the life of me I can't figure out what your point is here. I gave you a good 20 minutes of my time, reading and re-reading your OP. Admittedly I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box, but I graduated from college and am relatively successfull in the professional world so I think it's fair to say I'm not a complete idiot.
I have a unique challenge for you, or Roachboy as he finds the topic interesting.... Without anymore links, cause you've provided plenty, and in your own words, what exactly is the problem here?
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Thank you, matthew330. I suggest that if you have not already....read the Rolling Stone mag's report about John Rendon, linked and excerpted on the bottom of my OP on this thread.
I became curious last fall, when I read that Ahmed Chalabi, disgraced and out of favor among Iraqis and the U.S. Iraqi military occupation command, (if you recall, his home was searched more than a year ago, by U.S. forces and it was reported that he was suspected of being an agent of the Iranian government, while he was on the pre-invasion of Iraq, CIA payroll.) was in the U.S. again.
I thought then that there was an even chance that he was being intentionally maligned by the U.S., to rehab his image among the Shiite voting majority, to improve his chances for election to office in the impending elections.
This was reinforced when he secretly met with Bush admin. officials, around the same time when the Rolling Stone article that described John Rendon's role in shaping U.S. domestic opinion, something the CIA is prohibited from engaging in...directly. There was also the matter of who in the U.S. government authorized Chalabi's admission into the U.S., since he was under investigation in Iraq, the last we heard, concerning his "double cross" of the CIA, related to preinvasion WMD intelligence.
Bottomline.....I have no idea what to believe, because everybody on "our side" has been reported to want us only to believe what they tell us, and that keeps changing. John Rendon is a curiousity, he kept completely under the radar before the Rolling Stone report, 8 months ago, and now this new development....a public "seminar" by Rendon, followed by a public Q&A.
I remembered ole Stewart Brand as a character portrayed in the book, "Electric Kool Ade Acid Test". No conclusions from me, but it is interesting that the guy who posted under Brand's email about the seminar, threw the thought out that the CIA may have pushed the psychedelic drug experimentation on the 60's youth to weaken the anti war movement....It would be amazing if Brand has worked for CIA since 1960 or so, and we'll never know...