Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, Ret.) has identified 50 false news stories created and leaked by a secretive
White House propaganda apparatus.
Bush administration officials are probably having second thoughts about their decision to play hardball with former US
Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Joe Wilson is a contender. When you play hardball with Joe, you better be prepared to deal with
some serious rebound.
After Wilson wrote a critically timed New York Times essay exposing as false George W.
Bush's claim that Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger, high officials in the White House contacted several Washington reporters
and leaked the news that Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
Wilson isn't waiting for George W. Bush to hand over the perp.
In mid-October, the former ambassador began passing copies of an embarrassing internal report to reporters across the US.
The-Edge has received copies of this document.
The 56-page investigation was assembled by USAF Colonel (Ret.) Sam Gardiner.
"Truth from These Podia: Summary of a Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Strategic Information Warfare and
Strategic Psychological Operations in Gulf II" identifies more than 50 stories about the Iraq war that were faked by government
propaganda artists in a covert campaign to "market" the military invasion of Iraq.
Gardiner has credentials. He has
taught at the National War College, the Air War College and the Naval Warfare College and was a visiting scholar at the Swedish
Defense College.
According to Gardiner, "It was not bad intelligence" that lead to the quagmire in Iraq, "It was an
orchestrated effort [that] began before the war" that was designed to mislead the public and the world. ...
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Gar Smith is Editor Emeritus of Earth Island Journal, Roving Editor at The-Edge (www.the-edge.org) and co-founder of Environmentalists Against War (www.envirosagainstwar.org).
On October 21, Col. Gardiner [10/21/03] was interviewed on the Paul Harris Radio Show on The Big 550 KTRS in St. Louis.
The Real Audio interview (and another link to the PDF files) can be found here: www.harrisonline.com/audio/listings/samgardiner.htm
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