Icon Re: The New Yorker article that everyone's reading.
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C'mon....

Let's take a look at this reporters "sources" shall we?

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...one senior planner said.

...a former high-level intelligence official said.

Roger J. Spiller, the George C. Marshall Professor of military history at the U.S. Command and General Staff College, said. ( Finally a name!)

A retired Air Force strategic planner remarked...

Another former planner said...

A former intelligence officer added...

...the Pentagon planner said.

One witness to a meeting recalled...

...a former intelligence official said.

A former senator told me....

A Pentagon official recalled that one senior general... (two anonymous sources in one sentence.)

...according to a senior Pentagon official.

According to a dozen or so military men I spoke to...

...the former intelligence official told me.

...a retired four-star general subsequently told me.

One senior Administration official commented to me...

Scott Ritter, the former marine and United Nations weapons inspector. (A second name but one of dubious character.)

...one senior planner said bitterly.

...a former American intelligence official told me.

Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. Middle East operative...

A former U.S. intelligence officer put it this way...

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Sorry but this article lacks any credability. The author quotes over 30 sources and all but 3 are anonymous?!?! 

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