Karen Kwiatkowski

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Karen Kwiatkowski (born 1960) is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel as well as a writer and poltical activist.

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• I came to share with many NSA colleagues a kind of unease, a sense that something was awry. What seemed out of place was the strong and open pro-Israel and anti-Arab orientation in an ostensibly apolitical policy-generation staff within the Pentagon.
  • "In Rumsfeld's Shop", The American Conservative, 1 December 2003
• Why we fight? I think we fight 'cause too many people are not standing up, saying 'I'm not doing this any more.'^{[citation needed]}
• If you join the United States military now, you are not defending the United States of America; you are helping certain policy-makers pursue an imperial agenda.^{[citation needed]}
• At the end of the summer of 2002, new space had been found upstairs on the fifth floor for an "expanded Iraq desk." It would be called the Office of Special Plans. We were instructed at a staff meeting that this office was not to be discussed or explained, and if people in the Joint Staff, among others, asked, we were to offer no comment. We were also told that one of the products of this office would be talking points that all desk officers would use verbatim in the preparation of their background documents.^{[citation needed]}
• By August, only the Pollyannas at the Pentagon felt that the decision to invade Iraq, storm Baghdad, and take over the place (or give it to Ahmad Chalabi) was reversible.^{[citation needed]}
• It wasn't intelligence — it was propaganda. They'd take a little bit of intelligence, cherry-pick it, make it sound much more exciting, usually by taking it out of context, often by juxtaposition of two pieces of information that don't belong together.
  • Interview by Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest, "The Lie Factory", Mother Jones, January/February 2004
• Interestingly, the Downing Street memo is actually being reported by CNN and FOX News. It is being discussed in the major papers. Congress intends to examine it. Hearing it mentioned on the half hour by CNN Headline News has not dispossessed me of the belief that a state suicide is impossible. Thus, my gentle thoughts are increasingly turning to murder. Murder of the state. In self-defense, of course!
  • "Unleashing the Resistance", LewRockwell.com, 15 June 2005

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• We have a Congress that failed in every way to ask the right questions, to hold the President to account. Our Congress failed us miserably, and that's because many in Congress are beholden to the Military Industrial Complex.
• The reason we're in Iraq first off has not honestly been told to the American people; it certainly had nothing to do with the liberation of the Iraqi people. It was never part of the agenda and it's not part of the agenda now.