[Intelforum] Fixing intelligence

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From: "Bill Gross" <bgross at airmail.net>
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Subject: RE: Fixing intelligence
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:36:21 -0600

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Mr. Vaughan,

At the risk of starting a heated discussion, if we invaded Iraq to 
control oil resources, why haven't we invaded Venezuela and Mexico 
(or at least that portion of eastern Mexico with large oil reserves)?

  Bill Gross




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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:30:06 EST

Subject: Re: Fixing intelligence

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Forgive me for picking nits, but "fix" has two distinct meanings: to 
repair and, colloquially, to secretly rig the outcome of a bet or 
guarantee a favorable result of competition by cheating or bribery -- 
as in "fixing" a fight or a horse-race. The current regime is more 
interested in the latter than the former. "Intelligence" per se 
cannot be repaired because it is a product of a process, but that 
process also may be beyond repair because of the apparatus that 
produces it: Too often information is fabricated or manufactured to 
casuistically justify a pre-determined policy, disguise actual 
motives, and purchase congressional acquiescence and public support. 
"Intelligence" about an enemy's motives and capacities is reduced to 
self-serving propaganda because every ruling class or elite confIates 
the terms "national security" and "national interest" to its own hold 
on power and wealth in an effort to confuse people about the 
objectives and consequences of policy. So, for example, the cabal of 
neo-cons invents stories about WMDs in Iraq in order to justify an 
aggressive war and occupation as part of a strategy to control 
sources and markets of petroleum.



Douglas L. Vaughan, Jr.

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