Amy Goodman interviews ret. army general, William Odom

retired army general, William Odom

AMY GOODMAN interviews ret. army general, William Odom:

We turn now to Iraq, what's wrong with cutting and running? That's the question asked by a retired army general, William Odom, about the continued U.S. military presence in Iraq. Odom served as Director of the National Security Agency, the top secret agency, well larger than the C.I.A., under President Reagan. He served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer, now Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington.

He recently wrote,

The invasion of Iraq will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history.

In his article, Odom says,

The wisest course for journalists might be to begin sustained investigations of why leading Democrats have failed so miserably to challenge the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The first step, of course, is to establish as conventional wisdom the fact that the war was never in the U.S. interests and has not become so,

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Lieutenant General William Odom joins us on the line from Washington, D.C. Welcome to Democracy Now!

(for complete interview)