Mom & Pop War Profiteering Team: The Woolseys

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http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_17316.shtml

<snip>One of the members mentioned who stood to profit was R. James Woolsey. In addition to being a member of the DPB, Woolsey also sits on Navy and CIA advisory boards; and he is also a founding member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), a private group that was specifically set up by Bush in 2002, to find ways to increase public support for a war against Iraq.

Let me say right here and now that I think bold lines are crossed when people like Woolsey, who promote a specific war, financially benefit from their successful promotion. There should be a law that requires a standard recusal from all war profits by any policy advisor who advocates sending our young men and women off to die in that same war. snip

would rate the husband and wife team of James and Suzanne Woolsey up there as one of the most blatant examples of war profiting that I‘ve ever seen. They both remain policy advisors on Iraq, even though they both work for private firms that do business there. James has long wanted to use US military might to transform the Middle East. "And he has pushed for war with Iraq as hard as anyone, even before the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001," according to the April 8, 2003 Global Policy Forum.

That's right - long before 9/11. In January 1998, James signed the now infamous letter to Clinton from the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) calling for regime change in Iraq (which Clinton trashed). In 1998, he also successfully lobbied to pass the Iraq Liberation Act (ILA), which allocated nearly $100 million for the Iraqi opposition, mainly the Iraq National Congress (INC), headed by none other than Ahmed Chalabi.

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[babylonsister]

1. A buddy of Cheney's too, no doubt.

:eyes: This is appalling, and why is this legal? This is worse than Armstrong Williams. Woolsey has also been a frequent talking head on MSM, sending out their message.

[Wilms]

2. Yep. The MSM hosts that creep like he's sooooooo informed.

OF COURSE HE'S INFORMED. IT'S IN INSIDE JOB!

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Someone should look into how far back this profiteering was going

on. Back in the 90s he was adamant about holding onto expensive satellite technology, rather than move the CIA into more cost-effective, but better directed human intelligence efforts.

Guess what Bush is figuring out now? That he needs better human intelligence. Guess what the Democratic Congress and Clinton were pushing for before the Newt Gingrich revolution upset the applecart? Yep, that's right. Do a search for Woolsey on the Washington Post. It's all there.