Tag: Pentagon
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How not to win a war
Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders By JAMES GLANZ and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by…
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The Pentagon’s Message Machine
Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand By DAVID BARSTOW, April 20, 2008 Corrections Appended In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations…