How DEPRESSING Is This?

[Placebo]

The media had a serioud hard on for this war, it's sickening. And now they run tributes to the 1,000 soldiers who have fallen. They make me sick.

[Nordic]

1. Wow. Kinda says it all, don't it?

somebody should rent a billboard and put that on it.

State sponsored terrorism, brought to you by CNN

[jeff30997]

2. You're not alone !

:puke:

[My Pet Goat]

3. This is sickening...

reminds of Gone with the Wind, when the Confederate officers were optimistically marching off to war. The irony from modern day America is that many officers in the Pentagon had serious doubts but that still was not good enough. Scarlett never had to contend with the "get your war on", whore media.

[MontecitoDem]

4. Wow

It brought it all back. The dread, the knowing there was no way we were going to stop Bush from going in, and knowing that our elected officials (the democrats) were rolling over again! Pisses me off even thinking about this.

Damn

[Placebo]

5. All they did was beat the steady drumbeat to war!

And do everything they could to bring the nation's bloodlust to an intense fervor.

[MagickMuffin]

6. Profits Over Everything Else

CNN is sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Kerr McGee, etc.

I remember all of these Corporations advertising in heavy rotation at the start of the war.

They had a war to promote, they knew that CNN would go along for the ride, because of all the advertising dollars they were throwing into CNN coffers.

It's a sad state of affairs that CNN has no objectivity when it came down to sending innocent human beings into a war that had NO PLAN.

It was SOLD to us as a winnable war, a cake walk, a war like no other, it would be done in a matter of a few weeks.


Sorry I can't provide a link to this story, it is something I downloaded and therefore I don't have the link available....but the title is listed below, along with excerpt



A Strategy of Lies: How the White House Fed the Public a Steady Diet of Falsehoods

The 56-page investigation was assembled by USAF Colonel (Ret.) Sam Gardiner.

"Truth from These Podia: Summary of a Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Strategic Information Warfare and Strategic Psychological Operations in Gulf II" identifies more than 50 stories about the Iraq war that were faked by government propaganda artists in a covert campaign to "market" the military invasion of Iraq.

Gardiner has credentials. He has taught at the National War College, the Air War College and the Naval Warfare College and was a visiting scholar at the Swedish Defense College.

Gardiner's dogged research identified a long list of stories that passed through Rumsfeld's propaganda mill. According to Gardiner, "there were over 50 stories manufactured or at least engineered that distorted the picture of Gulf II for the American and British people." Those stories include:


The link between terrorism, Iraq and 9/11

Iraqi agents meeting with 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta

Iraq's possession of chemical and biological weapons

Iraq's purchase of nuclear materials from Niger

Saddam Hussein's development of nuclear weapons

Aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons

The existence of Iraqi drones, WMD cluster bombs and Scud missiles

Iraq's threat to target the US with cyber warfare attacks

The rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch

The surrender of a 5,000-man Iraqi brigade

Iraq executing Coalition POWs

Iraqi soldiers dressing in US and UK uniforms to commit atrocities

The exact location of WMD facilities

WMDs moved to Syria


The complete report written by Sam Gardiner is available online in six PDF files.

[cheshire]

7. Swoosh did it to avenge his Dad so Dad would love him. Sick fu*k