Toronto Sun: The Neoconning of a Nation

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Eric Margolis
Sun, April 27, 2008

The neoconning of a nation
Vice-President, shilling troupe of retired generals, deliver fantastic tales for their cause

PARIS -- U.S. intelligence released a dramatic video last Thursday, supposedly taken by an Israeli spy, that purportedly showed North Korean technicians helping build a nuclear reactor in Syria. The reactor was destroyed seven months ago by Israeli warplanes.

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As the latest furor builds over the nefarious North Korean, we should remember that this scare story comes from the same Washington fib factory that manufactured all the alarms and "evidence" about Saddam Hussein's non-existent weapons of mass destruction and links to al-Qaida.

North Koreans are pretty scary, but their nuclear capabilities and the threat they supposedly pose have been exaggerated. South Korea and European intelligence agencies, for example, are cautious about Washington's claims about North Korea and Syria.

The New York Times revealed last week what this column has long said: The Pentagon has duped Americans and Canadians by organizing a bunch of retired U.S. generals -- mislabelled "independent military experts" -- to shill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Watch these rent-a-generals again prostitute themselves on TV by promoting the administration's party line about the great Syrian nuclear menace.

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2008/04/27/5401676-sun.php

On edit: Oops. Forgot the link.

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1. kick - good word - 'neoconning'

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