Pentagon talking points on Iraq, war on terror leaked to Raw Story

[lala_rawraw]

"An incredibly lengthy "prep book" for discussion of the Iraq war and US efforts to end terrorism has been issued to supporters in Congress, and acquired by RAW STORY.

The 74 page document seems to be an election year guide for Republicans and Democratic supporters of the war, with many of the "points" seeming to be rebuttals to arguments made by opponents of the war.

Other portions seek to categorize opponents of the war as "cut and run" advocates."


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Read the actual document: http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Republican_talking_points_on_Iraq_war_0615.html

Unreal!!!

[sabra]

1. I am glad to see the Pentagon getting political...

:sarcasm:

[MelissaB]

8. Yep! This is just great...

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Preemptive publicity will prevent future ignorance. Hopefully

[liberal N proud]

3. Global War on Terrorism mentioned 11 time on that story alone

Saddam: 52 times

Repeat, repeat and repeat it until they think it is the truth

[kpete]

4. I just posted your Iranian story

I want to know MORE...

Ledeen ALWAYS means trouble of the WORST sort...

[peacebird]

5. Call Congress - demand to know how Pentagon FUNDED a POLITICAL paper

Military is NOT ALLOWED to be political.

Very stringent rules about that. How did the Pentagon PAY FOR research and creation of a very partisan political document aimed at propping up the right wing?

hmmmm? Ask for information on something so "highly unusual" (from the Marine Corps Times report)

[bigtree]

6. great catch

K&R

my 2 cents: The Republican War Party (6-15-2006)

[atreides1]

7. The End of Democracy is Closer

Well there it is, the US military is now commanded by generals and admirals who are loyal to the Bush administration, not to the country or the Constitution that they swore to defend.

We now have "Hitler's Generals" in charge of the military, next up "Hitler's Judges" will be in total control of the courts.

Bush has his Reich and it happened right under our noses.

[robertpaulsen]

9. Recommended and bookmarked!

Thanks lala. Will definitely read this!

[kpete]

10. Pentagon tried to ‘recall’ Iraq strategy book.

Pentagon tried to ‘recall’ Iraq strategy book.

Yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld’s office issued a 72-page briefing book to help war supporters argue their case during today’s House debate on Iraq. The office apparently soon realized it had sent the memo to a larger list of recipients than intended. The following message was sent last night:

—–Original Message—–
From: Scott, Traci CIV OSD LA
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:41 PM
Subject: Recall: Prep Book

The sender would like to recall the message, “Prep Book”.

Obviously, the email didn’t work.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/15/pentagon-tried-to-recall-iraq-strategy-book/

[Catherine Vincent]

11. K&R!

[evermind]

12. Fascinating document...

Is there anything in it to indicate conclusively the source (pentagon?)

Also, the html version at your link ( http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Republican_talking_points_on_Iraq_war_0615.html ) seems to end abruptly ("an increase in demand, and targeted atta") Maybe there's even more of it, and you ran into some kind of posting limit in the RS software?

[marcus_b]

13. Document Author seems to be Claude Chafin, DoD

The whole document appears to be available from:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/Iraq%20Floor%20Debate%20Prep%20Book.doc
This document, "Iraq Floor Debate Prep Book.doc" has the following MD5 checksum:
58b3f1cead0eb8a550f50771154529c1 Iraq Floor Debate Prep Book.doc
It contains the following content at byte address 1526000 (hexadecimal 1748F0):

001748f0: 1d00 0000 436c 6175 6465 5f48 2e5f 4368  ....Claude_H._Ch
00174900: 6166 696e 4077 686f 2e65 6f70 2e67 6f76  [e-mail]
00174910: 0000 6e00 1e00 0000 1200 0000 4368 6166  ..n.........Chaf
00174920: 696e 2c20 436c 6175 6465 2048 2e00 686f  in, Claude H..ho

The two strings contained here are in plain text:

[e-mail]
Chafin, Claude H.

This suggests that this document at least passed through the computer at Claude Chafin's desk. I digged up the following information about this person:
"Claude Chafin, United States Department of Defense is listed in the Federal Yellow Book and The Leadership Library® on the Internet." http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/fybInfo/Claude_Chafin_United_States_Department_of_Defense.html
"Claude Chafin Director of Communications, United States Department of Defense"
http://www.leadershipprofiles.com/preview.asp?docid=448827&t=0
"For more information on this event please contact Claude Chafin at [phone]."
http://www.defenselink.mil/advisories/2003/p01242003_p008-03.html
I don't know if this information is interesting or useful to anybody.