Scott Horton Interviews Karen Kwiatkowski
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Karen Kwiatkowski, columnist at LewRockwell.com and retired USAF lieutenant colonel, discusses the dogged determination of Bush supporters who still believe the Iraq war lies, the laser-like neoconservative focus on Middle East policy, how several well-placed neocons hijacked the US government and started the war in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s ultimate success at establishing military outpost “lily pads” and how George W. Bush let loose the neocon “crazies in the basement” his father warned about.
Background articles on Karen Kwiatkowski’s interaction with Douglas Feith’s Office of Special Plans:
2006 CSPAN interview by Brian Lamb
“Career Officer Does Eye-Opening Stint Inside Pentagon”
MP3 here. (26:32)
Karen Kwiatkowski is a retired USAF lieutenant colonel, who spent her final four and a half years in uniform working at the Pentagon. She is a columnist for LewRockwell.com and for militaryweek.com. She hosts the call-in radio show American Forum and blogs occasionally for Huffingtonpost.com and Liberty and Power.
andy
January 8th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
The neocons should all be charged with treason.
iggy
January 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Karen is one of the biggest unsung heroes in the US IMO. Her, Kurt Sonnefield, Sibel, Phil Giraldi, Ray McGovern, and Barry Jennings(RIP).
Iggy
January 8th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Michael Chertoff, the real terrorist… Did you see this and the XMas blow up my balls bomber i.e patsy? WHy is Israeli security company always involved in all of these "terrorist attacks"? It was they who let the "age 50ish, wealthy looking Indian man" talk them into letting the Nigerian on the plane w/o a passport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5FBCHKu2KU
Alex
January 9th, 2010 at 2:12 am
If one wishes to know the provenance of Al-Qaeda video’s, intelligence and general mainstream media one should investigate Rita Katz.
Alex
January 9th, 2010 at 2:17 am
Netanyahu’s “Clean Break” document written before 9/11 should be read if one wishes to understand the Iraq war.
lester ness
January 8th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
It's hard to define what a neo-con is, but I wouldn't mind putting a couple dozen individuals on trial. Let Wolfowitz and GWB be cell-mates for life; it'd be a punishment worse than death.
Alex
January 9th, 2010 at 2:24 am
There are no innocent politicians the buck stops with them. If politicians are deceived they should say so publicly but they will not because they fear losing their power so as I stated there are no innocent politicians.
Hacklheber
January 9th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
—>> http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/05/28/al-qaeda-w…
I can't remember ever seeing a list of Old Bin's trolling videos, at least some of which were faked (either obviously or not), or scriptwritten by a California Jihadi (hell yeah, California!). Anyone have one?
quisp
January 9th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
A neo-con, basically [from the scoop Jackson days aka MR Boeing] cheerleaders for the MIC to create and foment wars of profits from the Cold War fraud to the fraudelent 'War on Terror'. The are the ''Team B' liars make stuff up.
AVietnamWarVeteran
January 9th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Feith, Wolfowitz, and ALL of the Zionist-Neocons should be put on trial for war crimes, convicted, and hung! The leaders of Israel should also be put on trial for war crimes, convicted, and hung!
Mike
January 10th, 2010 at 1:22 am
And the Generals who went on TV to sell the Iraq war were all neocons? The CIA is neocon? Big Oil and war profiteering were not factors at all? Just the dual loyalty to Israel?
Re: Iggy. When do you expect answers from US intel? Last I checked nobody at the CIA has ever explained their pre-9/11 conduct or has come forward to explain why Abdulmutallab info wasn't passed on to the TSA. Instead they hide behind national security classification or "ongoing investigation" and the politicians cover for them.
Orville H. Larson
January 10th, 2010 at 6:15 am
Neocons have a hard-on for warmongering and imperialism. (Of course, they never do any of the fighting.) And if the warmongering and imperialism is on behalf of Israel–well, so much the better! Those Zionist darlings in Tel Aviv must be lavishly propped up by their U.S. sugar daddy.
Orville H. Larson
January 10th, 2010 at 6:21 am
My best regards to Colonel Kwiatkowski. She saw the machinations of the neocon scum up close and personal. Learn from her.
Eve
January 11th, 2010 at 5:33 am
It's time to pull back the curtain and let the sunlight shine down on those who need exposing.
Call them by name, converse with your fellow Americans and share what you know with all who'll listen.