McCain's Brain? RANDY SCHEUNEMANN

Let's examine this fellow who is helping McCain formulate Iraq policy: Randy Scheunemann.

A news item today quoted this guy, saying that the real Bush III is Obama, giving some contorted pseudo-logic as evidence. He must have studied under Rove, but the statement is so wildly out-there as to provoke great guffaws of laughter. So, he is a failed Rove acolyte, unable to sell eyeglasses to the blindman.

According to Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo:

"Scheunemann was a core participant in the lobbying, plotting and organized
campaigns of deception that led America to war in Iraq. He was a close
collaborator with Ahmad Chalabi through the 1990s. He helped draft the Iraq
Liberation Act, which created the new funding stream for Chalabi's Iraqi
National Congress. At the start of the Bush administration he signed on as Don
Rumsfeld's 'consultant' on Iraq at the Pentagon. And then when the
administration started cranking up the machinery for the propaganda campaign in
favor of war he went back on the outside to form and lead the Committee for the
Liberation of Iraq, to lead the press and lobbying campaign to make sure the war
got started on schedule.
Remember, US intelligence later found evidence that
Chalabi, in addition to foisting a bunch of bogus intelligence and lying
informers on the US and pocketing a lot of US taxpayer dollars, had provided
highly classified US intelligence to Iran. Scheunemann worked closely with
Chalabi for years in his efforts to get the US into war with Iraq. He was also a
go-between between Chalabi and McCain. Now that he's taking such a high-profile
role on the Iraq issue in the 2008, Scheunemann's history with Chalabi and the
use of bogus intelligence to get the nation into war is unquestionably highly
newsworthy.