...a story has been circulating that the media are paid propagandists.
Posted on 12/12/2005 2:53:34 AM PST by Jim Robinson
With every passing Iraqi death we lose another piece of our humanity. How can we or Washington justify the mass murder of thousands?
The desperate attempt of government officials to brand the Iraqi insurgency with al-Qaida is part of a deliberate misinformation campaign aimed at dissuading the American public from demanding an end to the Iraq war.
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Shortly after 9/11, the Bush administration realized it had a serious problem: Decades of U.S. foreign policy aimed at pillaging other countries’ resources had sparked an abiding sense of resentment and anger among the world’s masses. With the stark reality of the United States increasingly precarious economic and military position impossible to ignore, administration officials did what any wealthy political clique with close ties to multinational corporations would do — they assigned one of the nation’s top advertising executives to improve the United States image abroad. The Pentagon also gave a four- month, $397,000 public relations contract to Rendon Group, charging it with the unenviable task of covering up the real human toll of the war in Afghanistan. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell responded to criticism by asserting, “There is nothing wrong with getting somebody who knows how to sell something. We are selling a product. We need someone who can re-brand American foreign policy, re-brand diplomacy.” Four years later, the Bush administration’s efforts to “re-brand” American foreign policy can be seen on the nightly news in the hard contours of Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi’s face.
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That's right - their policies resulted in the mass murder of millions and they try to take the moral high ground by mischaracterizing who is doing the actual murdering and that we are trying to kill the murderers - a distinction that they are incapable of making.
How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live. Thoreau
Yeah, just like the gov't lied to us about the Viet Cong being Communists, when they were REALLY just patriots who wanted to run their country in their own unique way. Anyway, as the commies told us at that time, we were just there for the oil (or was it for the tungsten, I forget).
Fast forward to Iraq. Different war, same commie script.
Iraqi's were involved in the 1993 WTC bombing.
Sir: You are standing with those using the stick of intimidation, weapons of mass cultural destruction (WMCDs), Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, and Dean.
President Bush has a solution and it is called Winning the WOT, a stance 85% of Americans favor rather than your advocacy of 'cut and run'.
Sincerely, XXXXX, a true American
There is such a thing, imo, as a feedback loop that gets created by a traumatic event in our lives. Certain sights, sounds, smells, etc. trigger the loop to be replayed in our memories. Someone, for example, might have 9/11 triggered in their memories by the sight of a huge cloud of dust reminiscent of the rolling cloud that engulfed that region around the WTC when the towers fell. Part of the treatment for PTSD is to break into that feedback loop with another more positive message.
That doesn't mean, though, that the Iraqi insurgency should not be connected with Al Qaeda. The 2 basic reasons for this is first, that the old Ba'athists did participate with the terrorists that Saddam did harbor, aid, and abet within his own country. Zarqawi was protected in Iraq PRIOR to the Iraq War. Second, those old saddamites are now participating with al qaeda.
The connection between old Iraq and al-qaeda is not a nefarious scheme designed to play on a trauma feedback loop.
It is a fact.
"Washington’s public relations experts have 'justified' the cold-blooded murder of 100,000 Iraqis and the daily humiliation of an entire nation."
This boy just justified all of Saddam's murders, insulted Iraqis and called American troops 'murderers' because America has given him a free pass to do so, signed by John F. Kerry. Swift Vets only mission was to keep Kerry from CIC and any further action on their part, they feel, would cloud their reputation. It is time for someone else to pick up that torch, and I would wholeheartedly support efforts by Free Republic to be that 'someone' in a concerted effort to get the message out that this behavior will not go unchallenged by any silent majority. The White Flag video was put together by a grassroots organization of the GOP. SW laid out the blueprint, all FR need to is follow it. I've asked a couple FReepers and got support on this idea, What say you?
Do you have a cite?
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