PBS on Iraq: A Compilation of Deceit

[babylonsister]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/033008F.shtml

PBS on Iraq: A Compilation of Deceit
By Morgan Strong
Consortium News
Sunday 30 March 2008


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Bush is depicted in the broadcast as a passive incompetent controlled by Cheney, though whether or not the President was manipulated is largely irrelevant. As the chief constitutional officer of the United States, he bears the ultimate responsibility.

There have been 4,000 American men and women killed in Iraq so far. Estimates of Iraqi dead range into the hundreds of thousands, including many civilians and many children.

Beyond the lies, there also were the self-delusions. How in their right minds could the people who started this war believe that a new Iraqi government, with even modest democratic tendencies, would immediately recognize Israel?

And even more farfetched, that all of the Middle East states would rejoice and happily follow suit?

What would happen to the Palestinians? Would they simply be shoved aside in this glorious new era? Did the Bush administration really think that the people of the Middle East would forgive and forget so easily?

How did these people come to govern us? How did such incompetents and ideologues gain our fealty?

[MadMaddie]

1. The same way that 30% Nazi population gained control of all

of Germany.

Facism!
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps (Naomi Wolfe

1.Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9 Equate dissent with treason
10. Suspend the rule of law

[babylonsister]

2. Just wow. Those steps have all been carried out.

Hopefully, they'll go away and someone else can fix this mess. :(

[babylonsister]

3. Testing... nt

[MadMaddie]

4. Of course it works now...user error (me)!!