Baghdad Bergner

If General Patraeus really has control over the officers under him, I think he better send this guy back to the states forthwith:

In an interview with "The Weekly Standard" (there's a tell right away) Bergner espouses this bullshit:

The WWS: Do you view al Qaeda as "the center of the insurgency," and if so, "do you view al Qaeda in Iraq as essentially the same as al Qaeda otherwise...what's the level of command and control with al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan?"

BERGNER: I don't think there's any question that the al Qaeda senior leadership is exercising influence over the al Qaeda in Iraq efforts, in fact, al Qaeda in Iraq has continued to be run, administered, overseen by foreigners in large measure

THAT IS A LIE!

It is nothing but agitprop meant to fool YOU, the taxpayer, who has now financed Operation Clusterfuck to the tune of $442 billion and counting to the tune of $10 Billion a month.

Berger was mentioned by me in a post last week at Eschaton as being Joe Lieberman's source, and he has been caught telling multiple falsehoods in only a matter of weeks as the press agent of Bush's surge in Iraq.

First, there was this:

The U.S. command in Baghdad this week ballyhooed the killing of a key al Qaeda leader but later admitted that the military had declared him dead a year ago...

...Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner began his Monday news conference with a list of top insurgents either killed or captured in recent operations. He said they had been eliminated "in the past few weeks" and were "recent results."

And then there was this...he's a Joe Lieberman source:

According to Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, the Iranian government has been using the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah to train and organize Iraqi extremists, who are responsible in turn for the murder of American service members.

Oh, and there is this:

Iran's covert Qods Force helped plan a brazen militant assault on US forces that killed five American troops in Karbala in January, according to a US military spokesman.

Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner told reporters in Baghdad Monday that detainees facing accusations of ordering the Karbala assault have confessed that senior operatives from Iran supported the attack.

According to Bergner, the militants said "senior leadership leading the Quds Force knew of and supported planning for the eventual Karbala attack that killed five coalition soldiers."

That, it turns out, is false as well



The fact that this guy is now going on right-wing talk radio and giving interviews to the Weekly Standard, the home of the PNAC War Whores is disturbing enough. The fact that he has repeatedly been found dispensing inaccurate and grossly biased information the favors Bush's counterfactual spin is the most indicting of all.