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Yellowhammer News
March 5, 2018
Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunder in American history. But Bush, un-chastened, went on to preach a crusade for democracy with the goal of “ending tyranny in our world.” What is the root of these astounding beliefs — that Stalin would be a partner forÃâà...
Sioux City Journal
March 3, 2018
Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunder in American history. But Bush, un-chastened, went on to preach a crusade for democracy with the goal of "ending tyranny in our world." What is the root of these astounding beliefs -- that Stalin wouldÃâà...
Brunswick News
March 2, 2018
George W. Bush, with the U.S. establishment united behind him, invaded Iraq with the goal of creating a Vermont in the Middle East that would be a beacon of democracy to the Arab and Islamic world. Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunderÃâà...
A Magazine of American Culture
March 2, 2018
George W. Bush, with the U.S. establishment united behind him, invaded Iraq with the goal of creating a Vermont in the Middle East that would be a beacon of democracy to the Arab and Islamic world. Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunderÃâà...
Creators Syndicate
March 1, 2018
Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunder in American history. But Bush, un-chastened, went on to preach a crusade for democracy with the goal of "ending tyranny in our world." What is the root of these astounding beliefs — that Stalin wouldÃâà...
HuffPost
September 28, 2017
President Jimmy Carter's national-security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was asleep in Washington, D.C., when the phone rang. His military aide, General William Odom, was calling to inform him that two hundred and twenty missiles launched from Soviet submarines were heading toward the United States.
Russia Matters
June 1, 2017
His military aide, General William Odom, was calling to inform him that two hundred and twenty missiles launched from Soviet submarines were ... Their populations—composed in the main of the younger generation, which is restless, increasingly nationally self-conscious and more intensely Islamic inÃâà...
RT
March 13, 2017
Michael Hayden says they may have been leaked by insiders, most likely young CIA recruits, from the generation known as millennials. ... One more recent predecessor as NSA director was an Army General named William Odom, and Odom when he heard about Hayden, almost couldn't control himself.
Consortium News
December 28, 2013
Another former NSA director, Army Gen. William Odom, told an interviewer on Jan. 4, 2006, that Hayden 'should have been court-martialed.' “This sad reality was known to CBS and our mainstream media colleagues before Hayden was confirmed as CIA director on May 18, 2006, but we were successful inÃâà...
Wired News
September 16, 2008
Perhaps equally important, Odom was never a CNN general, broadcasting the Pentagon's talking points to a cable news audience. Amid the hysterical chatter over the global war on terrorism, he never lost sight of the larger issues of strategy. Odom's work speaks for itself. The Collapse of the Soviet MilitaryÃâà...
Newsweek
June 5, 2008
Washington has its share of retired generals who go on TV and blather the administration line fed them, we have recently learned, at private Pentagon briefings. And then there was Bill Odom. A retired three-star general who was once a senior officer on President Carter's national-security staff and laterÃâà...
Center For American Progress
June 2, 2008
William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency under President Reagan, passed away on Friday in Lincoln, Vermont. A West Point graduate, Gen. Odom served for 34 years until retiring in 1988. Specializing in Russian and Soviet affairs, Gen. Odom earned a Ph.D from Columbia University inÃâà...
Antiwar.com
January 27, 2007
In addition to the president, a number of people and groups have supported increased US force levels. As General Colin Powell has said, before we consider sending additional US troops, we must examine what missions they will have. I would add that we ask precisely what those troops must do to reverseÃâà...
Nieman Watchdog
July 19, 2006
Gen. William Odom says Vice President Cheney has it all wrong when he warns that the U.S. must stay in Iraq because failure there could prompt collapse elsewhere. In fact, now it looks like a new Arab-Israeli war could be breaking out precisely because our actions in Iraq have emboldened Iran and Syria.
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