<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sprey has been a source & co-writer with Alex Cockburn of Counterpunch. <div><br></div><div>(See e.g. their joint piece on Fukushima: <<a href="http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/2011/08/sprey-cockburn-report.html">http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/2011/08/sprey-cockburn-report.html</a>>.)<br><div><div><br></div><div>On Nov 17, 2011, at 1:11 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <title></title> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> The oil companies know which palms to grease.<br> <br> Oily to bed and oily to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, & otherwise.<br> <br> *<br> <br> We tend to think of Military Intelligence as being an oxymoron.<br> Pierre Sprey was a follower of the ideas of John Boyd, an interesting exception.<br> <br> There are a lot of military people who are opposed to the war.<br> <br> <br> On 11/18/2011 1:33 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CALMNhNSOiA_Bp8VsfEq8i584J=dXnwWoE_tk+wVu6b68ffoFCg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">apparently the experts are Winslow Wheeler, of the Center for Defense
Information (a key critic of Pentagon spending), Pierre Sprey and
Andrew Bacevich.
Sprey, a former warplane designer, said this about the Iraq war:
"It is an enormously unjust war, not fought for any of the reasons put
forth," he said. "Very simply, I don't think we should be going to war
for oil companies."
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/15/AR2006051501518.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/15/AR2006051501518.html</a>
Should be interesting.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Robert Naiman
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org"><naiman@justforeignpolicy.org></a> wrote:
</pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I don't know who the "experts" are, but this might be useful:
Need to Know, November 18, 2011: The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices
This week’s special edition of Need to Know shines a light on the
debate over the Pentagon’s budget, exploring whether the $700 billion
defense budget can be cut and, if so, how and by how much. Fred
Francis, former Pentagon correspondent at NBC, moderates a roundtable
discussion between military experts who discuss the risks and benefits
of cutting U.S. defense spending on military pensions, health care,
deployments and equipment. Ray Suarez hosts.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/uncategorized/need-to-know-november-18-2011-the-pentagon-hard-times-hard-choices/12374/">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/uncategorized/need-to-know-november-18-2011-the-pentagon-hard-times-hard-choices/12374/</a>
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