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To: mcg404 who wrote (19752)	12/9/2003 4:42:20 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81271

John >>> Manipulating the military in any way to influence policy decisions ignores the purpose for its existence, Donnelly added. "You don't use the military for political objectives," she said. "The military is there to defend the country. It should not be used for political reasons, social engineering or anything like that."<<< In a few short sentences above, Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, has told lie after lie. For example, "Manipulating the military in any way to influence policy decisions ignores the purpose for its existence" and "You don't use the military for political reasons" and "The military is there to defend the country." We all know that the reason the US is in Iraq, in the first place, is in furtherance of "political reasons" and, indeed, everything to do with the present government is about "manipulation". Of course, "coercion" was not mentioned. To me, it is thus clear that the call for conscription, when it is not, in fact, required is a further example of the creation of cognitive dissonance --- the way to mess up peoples' decision-making processes so that they don't know whether conscription is good or bad, needed or not or what to do about it, anyway. But they have no doubt that the military is "good" because it "defends the country". That is a given. The military is always good because it defends the country --- even in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Iran, in Israel, in Georgia, in Uzbekistan, in Turkmenistan, in Korea, in Kosovo, in wherever the government decides the country is. That they know. rense.com >>> What "new values" are being taught under the State's new "sustainability plan" to facilitate destruction of ethics in our courts, schools, and political institutions? Here is the seven-point teach list now being applied across the country: 1. There is no right or wrong, only conditioned responses. 2. The collective good is more important than the individual. 3. Consensus is more important than principle. 4. Flexibility is more important than accomplishment. 5. Nothing is permanent except change. 6. All ethics are situational; there are no moral absolutes. 7. There are no perpetrators, only victims. <<< To this list there we can add a further point: 8. When the nation needs defenders what is important is the national defence not how the defenders are chosen.