John Kiriakou
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So the Iraqis have electrical towers like we have everywhere, but ours have four legs and the Iraqis have three legs.
So just a few days before we attacked Iraq, at that time, I'm the executive assistant to the deputy director for operations at the CIA.
So it's a serious, the most serious job I ever had in my life.
So you have access to a lot.
Literally everything.
And the Israelis come to us and they said, listen, you guys are going to attack Iraq in a couple of days.
We said, absolutely not.
We put this coalition together with all these Arab countries.
As soon as you guys jump in, all the Arabs are going to drop out.
Just let us do it.
Next thing you know, every one of these electrical towers just begins to topple over like 150 miles worth in the Western desert because somebody put explosives on just one of the three legs.
And I remember my boss saying,
These damn Israelis, they just can't leave well enough alone.
I'm far less worried about the dancing Israelis than I am about the Israelis who were arrested on 9-11.
They were happy because they knew exactly what was going to happen, that we would have to enter the war.