Just the Facts - Jack - Riiiiiiiiiiiiight!

[rayboyusmc]

Our own ministry of propaganda. Keep on moving folks, there is nothing to see here. We distort, you accept. You just couldn't handle the truth you pathetic little people.

Good old frigging liberal media.

The surge is a success. We can't stop the mortar attacks into the Green Zone, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel - at least for all of those who will make big $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ off the death of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard patriots who have believed and put their life on the line. If there is an afterlife, hell will be full of those who start unneeded wars and those who make their bloody money from these wars.

War Is Still A Racket and the Racketeers are in charge of this administration.

In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantanamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded "the gulag of our times" by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from U.N. human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.

The administration's communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantanamo.

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as "military analysts" whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.

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