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When Jon Stewart at the-Comedy. Chapnel cQffi!ll~~ts on-the Gi~t M~ss-0':'P9t~ia,
he's not kidding. Somehow, I see a sweaty Michael Rubin ~ack in the kitchen ..
wiping his hands on ~is stained apron. No, Mighael, the damned spot won't come
out. Trust me.
Rubin's NRO tirade thematically centers on the presumed "Kwiatkowski-LaRouchegrand-conspiracy-to-pick-on-neoconservatives-and-make-
them-look-like-really­
foolish-blunderers-by-getting-us-int9-an-u~ecessary-war~killing-more-than-750­
American-soldiers- and-suggesting-the horror!-that-some-neoconservatives-~re..;
even-war-criminals.II His article is in key ways factually incorrect, wrong, and in
some ways, a little bit stupid. But-smears usually are, aren't they?
Some key mistakes include the old AEI charge that I have something to'do with
LaRo~che, that I didn't know where the asp offices were loca~ed, that I left the
Pentagon because I felt others had gotten promotions and I didn't, that I said L!!!!y..
Franklin used his wheelchair-bound wife as a cover·for galliyanting atounaihe_
worm: on secret missions,.analliat rliave a fringe ideology, among others. 'For the
t'ecord, no on LaRouche, yes on the.location ofthe asp spaces, no on the promotion
question (I never even stayed long enough to meet my first 0-6 board), no on Larry
Franklin and his wife and secret missions, and I'm not sure on the nfringe171eology."
Rubin never really explains what fringe id~ology he's talking about.
I can only say with a high confidence that it isn'tthe same fringe ideology embraced
by the National Review and the American Enterprise"Institute these days.
When Mfcha~l Rubin says he knows something about sOplethil1g, it seems he really
doesn't know much. The little he knows appears not to be supported by either facts
or evidence, and is somewhat hope-based: Whether he is advising the Pentagon on
Iraq and Iran, or,trying to smear me, Rubin gets it wrong, again and again.
Like Tammy Wynette's h~roine, he's going onfaith,in and love for the neocon
agenda, and loyalty to his neocon friends. Faith and love and loyalty are wonderful
things, but Micha~l, dear, it's hard sometimes, isn't-it? All ~atabuse, and people
giving you a har4 time, saying you made bad choices, all those reasons to leave but
you just can't do" it. I think Tammy says it best:
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Givin' all your love to just on~ man
You'll have bad times and he'll have good times
Doin' things that,you don't understand
J3ut ifyou love him, you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And ifyou love him, oh be proud ofhim
'Cause after all he's just a man
Karen Kwiatkowski [send her mail] is a retired USAF
lieutenant colonel, who spent herfinalfour and a halfyears
i~ u.niform working at [he 'Pentqgon. She now lives with her
May 19, 2004