VIDEO MASHUP: NEOCON Frederick Kagan Lies About Iraq Surge On Fox ‘News’

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UPDATE: The original video had one error identifying Frederick Kagan as a co-founder of PNAC. In fact, it was Robert Kagan, Freddie’s brother who co-founded PNAC with General Kristol. Freddie is merely a rank and file member of PNAC and signatory to some of the reports generated by the neocon think tank. (hat tip Robert Danow)

Neoconservative co-founder of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) and author of Bush’s recent Iraq “Surge” plan, Frederick Kagan, shared a virtual propagandafest with Brit Hume on Fox ‘News’ Sunday yesterday. BRAD BLOG covered the entire charade that was Kagan’s Plan for Success back in January along with a timeline evidencing Freddie’s ever-changing call for a troop surge which began with 50,000 additional troops and ended up with either 20,000 or 33,000 more soldiers depending on the day of the week.

Perhaps the only thing more amazing than Kagan’s lack of honesty and empathy for our troops is Fox’s audacity for continuously giving Kagan and his warmongering kin, including “General” Bill Kristol, a platform to spout their neoconservative rhetoric. If Fox ‘News’ had any integrity whatsoever it would implement a Mendoza Line type requirement for its pundits. In baseball, all one has to do to stay even with the Mendoza Line is get a hit 1 out of every 5 at bats. Imagine if Fox made it a requirement that Kagan had to be right on at least 1 of 5 matters that he weighs in on. Actually, as far as I know, if the minimum requirement were merely to be right once he wouldn’t make it on the air.

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VIDEO MASHUP: NEOCON Frederick Kagan Lies About Iraq Surge On Fox ‘News’

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    Dredd said on 7/16/2007 @ 5:55am PT: [Permalink]

    Kagan the neoCon, youngest descendant of Conutt the Barbarian‘s cousin Narcissistic Freddie, who went mad when he could not love himself as much as he wanted to, is just another spawn of the age of deceit.
    His “mind” is of the militant mother of all deceivers, who fancy themselves as psywarriors.

    The bimbo neoCon chicks call them *sigh* warriors. They promote juvenile lunacy and, thru the bushies, make it official policy.

    Some of the world is in guffaw mode as they observe neoCon antics, while others are in shock over this massive failure of the american system to immunize itself from this neoCon infestation.

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    Bud,...B.C.Bud said on 7/16/2007 @ 12:34pm PT: [Permalink]

    Yupp. This whole thing,war,whatever is a huge victory for ’em. Neocon’s believe in sterilizing unwanted types but they supposedly care about those delightful brown Iraqi folks for some reason,..o-k.. Geez,We’re all overwhelmed/desensitized and They’re still doing what they want,right, they’ve got US Troops parked there as their ‘muscle’ for their various regional enterprises for quite a while ahead still. Lotsa folks there are waiting to take control of some of the biz’s the Bushies are running. Pumping oil to kuwait,down to even cell phone liscences I heard. Who can even be bothered to remember those disappearing forklifts full of cash. Wanna bet some museum pieces are in a US Generals home… I heard ALL the accounting for this war was runnin’ fast+ loose out of a sandiego’s house bsmt., that changed yet? If so can someone trustworthy like Brad or Cindy(haha) check the accounting for where the funds spent +raised are going? Shouldn’t there be a public database(ala freedom-of-info act)? Unfortunately,Pelosi looks like she’s on coke +a good chunk of ’em act blackmailed up. These neo’s Should be acting arrogant +having fun, no one’s ‘following-the-money or anything meaningful at all at the moment, while a supposedely retired Rumsy is probably taking care of loose ends as we speak… yupp…

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    Mugzi said on 7/16/2007 @ 3:03pm PT: [Permalink]

    I can’t believe anyone taking Faux news seriously – home of the Simpsons for crying outloud!!!

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