"It is absolutely parallel. They're using the same dance steps - - -
- demonise the bad guys, the pretext of diplomacy, keep out of negotiations, use proxies. It is Iraq redux"
Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counter- terrorism specialist, in Vanity Fair, on echoes of the run-up to the war in Iraq.
Same denials, same liars, and the same citation as original post.
Ya wonder just how much the world and the American people will take before they fire the bastard.
Arf