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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (478107)	10/19/2003 2:11:59 PM
From: Red Heeler	Respond to of 769670

How The War Was Spun War and the myths to justify it are two constants of history. Julius Caesar "spun" a slaughter in Gaul by calling it a pacification. The Crusades were sold to the fervent masses as being a battle of faith, but began as a trade dispute. When the truth is morally complicated - as it tends to be in international relations generally and war in particular - fiction is often easier to handle. Governments lie because it puts them on the front foot, makes them appear to be in control of the agenda. Messy realities must be simplified and sanitised lest they undermine the objective. And it was ever thus. smh.com.au CC