even labelled as not only SECRET but NOFORN—which means
they cannot even be shared with our allies—anti-American cartoons that
ran in IRAQI newspapers, even more than a year later [when or if they ever
declassified them I don't know]. One typically ludicrous cartoon depicts
drunken GIs lounging in the Saudi sand with shapely U.S. servicewomen
dressed in unusual military attire: bras, shorts and high heels.
NOFORN level security for IRAQI cartoons. Clueless autopilot secrecy.
The ultimate in bureaucratic capture:
# "Failures of Leadership on Land Mines", NYT editorial, 6/21/97
#
# Land mines are responsible for killing 10,000 people worldwide each year,
# most of them innocent civilians, including children.
#
# Never before has the momentum to ban all land mines been so strong. A high
# percentage of battlefield casualties among American troops are by mines.
#
# Yet President Clinton and Vice President Gore are meekly yielding to the
# wrongheaded opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, even though they
# claim to support the ban themselves.
#
# Even General Norman Schwarzkopf and pro-military Republican Senators like
# John McCain, Alfonse D’Amato and Chuck Hagel have all endorsed the ban.
#
# America’s proud traditio
