tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post6245602811653519474..comments2023-11-05T23:25:31.498+11:00Comments on Wot Is It Good 4: edelman, turkey and plame.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post-30911699223189755702007-02-19T06:57:00.000+11:002007-02-19T06:57:00.000+11:00oldschool - thnx for that, and yep, i'm as brown a...oldschool - thnx for that, and yep, i'm as brown as a berry.<BR/><BR/>starroute - thnx. sibel has actually pointed to edelman as well, and it appears that she puts him closer to the center of her case than has really been appreciated. i'm still very curious as to why they cycled him through turkey in 2003.lukeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13280906371216516750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post-9194222054442095072007-02-19T02:23:00.000+11:002007-02-19T02:23:00.000+11:00There's some stuff on Edelman and the Plame affair...There's some stuff on Edelman and the Plame affair <A HREF="http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=8137" REL="nofollow">here</A>. One point it makes is that:<BR/><BR/><I>What is interesting here, aside from the cloak-and-dagger, almost Franklinesque flair of Libby, is that Edelman was no longer even supposed to be employed with him at the time: as the NYT reminds, "Mr. Edelman ceased work for Mr. Libby on June 6, 2003, to begin language training in preparation for a posting as ambassador to Turkey."</I><BR/><BR/>It also points out:<BR/><BR/><I>And go he did – straight back into the arms of Dick Cheney and the war party, which he had already served on two occasions, first during the reign of Bush I, and again between 2001-2003 as a special assistant to Cheney. In the first period, he worked under Paul Wolfowitz in the creation of a Defense Policy Guidance that "stipulated that the U.S. should wage preventive war to maintain unchallenged U.S. military supremacy." The second time around, in the run-up to the Iraq war, Edelman played a vital role, along with Lewis Libby, Doug Feith, and other prominent neocons, in crafting the bogus rationale for war in Iraq that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. In August 2005, President Bush "used a constitutional power to bypass the Senate" in confirming Edelman as the new undersecretary of defense for policy, replacing Douglas Feith.</I><BR/><BR/>Interesting that he was involved with the <A HREF="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1571" REL="nofollow">Defense Policy Guidance</A>:<BR/><BR/><I>The 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), crafted by then-Defense Department staffers I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Zalmay Khalilzad, is widely regarded as an early formulation of the neoconservatives' post-Cold War agenda. . . .<BR/><BR/>When an initial draft of the DPG was leaked to the New York Times and Washington Post, it created an enormous uproar among Democrats and many administration figures, spurring the White House to immediately and publicly retract it. Among its more salient points, the draft DPG called for massive increases in defense spending, the assertion of lone superpower status, the prevention of the emergence of any regional competitors, the use of preventive—or preemptive—force, and the idea of forsaking multilateralism if it didn't suit U.S. interests. It called for intervening in disputes throughout the globe, even when the disputes were not directly related to U.S. interests, arguing that the United States should “retain the preeminent responsibility for addressing selectively those wrongs which threaten not only our interests, but those of our allies or friends, or which could seriously disrupt international relations.”</I><BR/><BR/>Edelman may be a second-rank figure -- but he's a second-rank figure who's been very close to the heart of the Cheney-Libby cabal for many years. As such, any involvement on his part has to be taken as significant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post-79758680547580331062007-02-18T19:30:00.000+11:002007-02-18T19:30:00.000+11:00back, i am.didja miss me?back, i am.<BR/><BR/>didja miss me?lukeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13280906371216516750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post-84278637528250739472007-02-18T19:17:00.000+11:002007-02-18T19:17:00.000+11:00yay, you're back!yay, you're back!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com