23 February 2013 | CIA, Covert Action, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israel Lobby, John McCain, Leon Panetta, News, Nukes, Obama, Politics, Propaganda, WMD | L. Reichard White
Iran’s imaginary nukes and other war-lies: Take 83 – – - It’s the sort of bureaucratic lying-by-obfuscation below which caused the U.S. to unnecessarily nuke Japan twice in three days, attack North Vietnam for an incident which Defense Sec. Robert McNamara admits “didn’t happen,” and invade Iraq based on weapons of mass destruction it didn’t [...]
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03 October 2011 | Civil liberties, Leon Panetta | Matt Barganier
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta responds to a question about the legality of assassinating Anwar al-Awlaki: This individual was clearly a terrorist. And yes, he was a citizen, but if you’re a terrorist, you’re a terrorist. And that means that we have the ability to go after those who would threaten to attack the United [...]
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