“Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear”
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.”
- General Douglas MacArthur
Apparently, not much has changed from MacArthur’s day …
Study: False statements preceded war
How will the neocons who persistently label those who question this war as both traitors and non supportive of our President and troops respond to this? I suspect we’ll hear nothing more substantive than the typical “they say this cuz’ they hate Bush” (I say this from personal experience).
“The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both”
“Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq’s links to al-Qaida, the study found. That was second only to Powell’s 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al-Qaida.”
Again I ask, “How exactly do we ’support our troops’ by putting them in harms way in an undeclared war predicated on lies? How is this noble or much less patriotic? Perhaps we can really show our support for the military by remembering this as we head to the ballot box.
HT: Dad
