Jaded Tasks: Brass Plates, Black Ops, and Big Oil: The Blood Politics of George Bush & Co. – Wayne Madsen
Jaded Tasks: Brass Plates, Black Ops, and Big Oil: The Blood Politics of George Bush & Co. – Wayne Madsen, TrineDay (2006) 311 pp. (OBT) ***
Wayne Madsen claims to have taken the title for his book, “Jaded Tasks,” from the name of a military operation that in 2004 deposed Jean Bertrand Aristide from office as president of Haiti. “Jaded” is as good an adjective as any to describe the fortitude required to explore the depths that Madsen ponders. Whether it’s suspicious deaths that have been officially determined to have been “suicides or it’s taking a look at what is really behind U.S. foreign policy, Madsen is there with his forever skeptical eye
A few highlights from the book are as follows: on neo-con iconoclasm Madsen observes, “the destruction of longstanding national vexillogical and heraldic symbols is a major neoconservative precept.”(p.67) Is this why the American flag patch on the uniforms of U.S. service personnel is backward? It certainly makes one wonder.
Leave it to Madsen to take away the veneer and expose a politician for what he truly is. A case in point is Democratic Senator from Connecticut Joseph Lieberman who Madsen describes as “a neoconservative ally of [Paul] Wolfowitz.”(p.258) Finally the public has caught onto Lieberman’s game and now there is a serious primary challenger to his seat.
Sometimes it would seem that Madsen goes a bit overboard in his scrutiny, for example when he attempts to make a strained and contorted link between the death of Congressional intern Chandra Levy and 9/11. In other areas, like 9/11 itself, Madsen is actually short on skepticism. For the most part, he does not attempt to challenge the “official” line on 9/11, though he recognizes that “9-11 was a panacea for three countries [Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Israel].”(p.285) But in fact, more so than any party, 9/11 was a boon to the Bush administration, which has subsequently cited the attacks as its raison d’etre in not just the foreign policy arena, but its raison d’etre in general, period. For more plausible answers, the reader here would be advised to seek out the excellent writings of Michael Ruppert, for an alternative analysis to the tried and failed official 9/11 storyline.
Wayne Madsen claims to have taken the title for his book, “Jaded Tasks,” from the name of a military operation that in 2004 deposed Jean Bertrand Aristide from office as president of Haiti. “Jaded” is as good an adjective as any to describe the fortitude required to explore the depths that Madsen ponders. Whether it’s suspicious deaths that have been officially determined to have been “suicides or it’s taking a look at what is really behind U.S. foreign policy, Madsen is there with his forever skeptical eye
A few highlights from the book are as follows: on neo-con iconoclasm Madsen observes, “the destruction of longstanding national vexillogical and heraldic symbols is a major neoconservative precept.”(p.67) Is this why the American flag patch on the uniforms of U.S. service personnel is backward? It certainly makes one wonder.
Leave it to Madsen to take away the veneer and expose a politician for what he truly is. A case in point is Democratic Senator from Connecticut Joseph Lieberman who Madsen describes as “a neoconservative ally of [Paul] Wolfowitz.”(p.258) Finally the public has caught onto Lieberman’s game and now there is a serious primary challenger to his seat.
Sometimes it would seem that Madsen goes a bit overboard in his scrutiny, for example when he attempts to make a strained and contorted link between the death of Congressional intern Chandra Levy and 9/11. In other areas, like 9/11 itself, Madsen is actually short on skepticism. For the most part, he does not attempt to challenge the “official” line on 9/11, though he recognizes that “9-11 was a panacea for three countries [Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Israel].”(p.285) But in fact, more so than any party, 9/11 was a boon to the Bush administration, which has subsequently cited the attacks as its raison d’etre in not just the foreign policy arena, but its raison d’etre in general, period. For more plausible answers, the reader here would be advised to seek out the excellent writings of Michael Ruppert, for an alternative analysis to the tried and failed official 9/11 storyline.
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