Unreliable Information Quotes
In 1915 the Balkans was contorted by War and political intrigue. Serbia in particular was totally unrealistic about making any concessions to Bulgaria. Grey and his associates tried to explain the realities to the Serbian Ambassador who, before the British could articulate the whole situation, told them that he and the rest of the Serbian leadership would rather die than give up any territory. Grey later observed :
The CIA intelligence had been shared with key world leaders to gain support for the George W, Bush administration invasion of Iraq. Blix was bothered by the fact that although the intelligence was so certain why were not any of the locations known. The answer, of course, was that there was no such development and the intelligence was faulty, but at the time, only he seemed to be bothered by this point. See also {588115}.
Franks as the Commander of U. S. forces in the Iraq War always appeared to be in command of the forces and the facts and made an excellent impression and had a strong public image. But he was poor on the accuracy of his details and his optimism of the way the Iraq War and occupation were going were woefully misleading.
He was referring to the Vietnam war. The amount of lying and propaganda to the American people during the Vietnam war was extreme at the time but established a trend where the Department of Defense was less overt about lying but when they did so did it with more impunity.
