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Former head of CIA operations butts heads with Congressmen - David Guyatt - 25-10-2013
For me, this is quite an amazing, enjoyable and insightful discussion.
It was interesting to see how Congressmen lined up to defend the US position on Israel with such alacrity. One almost feels that they felt their funding was being threatened - or am I being too cynical? Maybe I am?
But I have to say that I immensely enjoyed Michael Scheuer telling them what he thought of them. He set out the six reasons why the US is hated by international jihadists - placing in first place US support of tyranny for over fifty years, and typified one Congressman's argument that it was because of American freedom, democracy, defence of women's rights as "Bullshit sir!"
The Congressman, caught in his own web of arguments tries to extricate himself. "I'm going to move on", he says. "I wish you would move on", says a grinning Scheuer. Delightful.
I like this guy...
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:Former head of CIA operations butts heads with Congressmen - David Guyatt - 25-10-2013
More from the most enjoyable Michael Scheuer, as he tucks CNN reporters in a bed of their own making over America and the overthrow of Gaddafi and US financial bankruptcy:
Former head of CIA operations butts heads with Congressmen - David Guyatt - 25-10-2013
Scheuer on Syria: the US is "owned by foreign governments" - "Saudi's and Israeli's".
And he highlights the degree of domestic discontent about US forces being asked to fight on the side of Al Qaida (the so called "Rebels") in Syria - and says the USAF will be "flying air cover for Al Qaida", who we've been fighting against for 17 years.
It's classic stuff: