Fwd: Pentagon Will Close Embattled Office

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 26 19:54:14 PST 2002


Micheal Ellis wrote:


> >Rumsfeld said last week that the Pentagon might engage in what he
>called strategic or tactical deception, as it has in the past. For
>example, if U.S. troops were about to launch an attack from the
>west, they might "do things" that would make the enemy believe an
>attack was instead coming from the north, Rumsfeld said.
>
>or just maybe we'll "do things" to make it appear like our forces
>are attacking from the north .....and then really attack from the
>north while those morons will think we are attacking from the west
>thinking we are trying to deceive them....

Kind of like the old Jewish joke Freud quoted about the two friends who run into each other on the street, and one says to the other "You! Why did you tell me you were going to Warsaw the other day when you really were going to Warsaw?"

Doug



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