Operation Hose America

[marmar]

via CommonDreams:



Published on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 by the Waco Tribune-Herald (Texas)
Operation Hose America
by John Young



No mulligans for this war president. George Bush says he’s staying off the links so that it not appear that he’s taking lightly the sacrifices of so many.

That doesn’t mean, however, that this White House has given up its No. 1 wartime pastime: misleading us.

To that end, day after day since shortly after 9/11, it has polished up and deployed a bag of big clubs. Shiny and steely, they have lent credibility to policymakers lacking it.

We speak of retired military officers who became as central to telling the war story on TV as reporters themselves — telling Americans that everything was as planned, that the claims leading us to war were right as rain.

These military TV analysts continue to be central to the story, portrayed as they are on TV news as independent voices.

Well, in case you hadn’t heard, here’s what The New York Times reported last month:

- As far back as 2002, the Pentagon cultivated a stable of more than 75 former military officials to get out its message through news organizations, posing as independent observers. The Pentagon described them as “surrogates” and “message force multipliers.” ........)more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/21/9102/

[patrice]

1. Gotta keep that revolving door between Pentagon and the trans-national Corporations, well oiled. nt

[zonmoy]

2. don't worry too much about that revolving door.

it will stop working at the same time the economy does because no oil or other fuels to fuel it.

[patrice]

3. That's true! Let's just hope they don't take us down with them, or too far down, that is.

There'll be those who try to consolidate their positions by moving hard and fast into nuclear war, by means of the smaller, more "usable", tactical nukes as soon as possible.

[dflprincess]

4. I imagine his decision to "sacrifice" golf came right after the

"Now, watch this drive" clip went public.

[KamaAina]

5. Take off, you hosers!

Stop lyin', eh?



Come to think of it, even those two might make better military analysts than Col. Sockpuppet and Co. :eyes: