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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (9994)	2/16/2005 3:41:51 PM
From: twmoore	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20039

America is probably the most patriotic country in the world,which I respect.My problem is with these same people equating Saddam and Iraq to 9/11. Saddam and 9/11 were used as an excuse to enter Iraq,which was planned long before 9/11.

To: Rock_nj who wrote (9994)	2/17/2005 6:05:34 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 20039

Re: ...it's rather amusing for me to watch the shifting rationales for feeding the war machine over my lifetime. It's kind of funny to go back to the Viet Nam era and read some of the utterly baseless justifications for that war. Iraq is the same crap, different country. Amazing the stuff they get away with. War Made Easy : How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death by Norman Solomon Review "Norman Solomon is one of the bravest and best American journalists, especially when he is dissecting the topics of war and the media. War Made Easy exposes and explains the lies and deceptions that have mislead our nation into vile and bloody disasters from Vietnam to El Salvador to Iraq; it reveals the frequent cowardice and culpability of the US media that often behaves as a propaganda arm of the Pentagon. War Made Easy is a sobering and essential book that Americans should read, share, and discuss." --John Stauber, co-author of Weapons of Mass Deception and Banana Republicans Product Description: "Solomon is one of the sharpest media-watchers in the business." –Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed Many people were appalled by the Bush administration’s blatant propagandizing in the run-up to the Iraq war. But what they don’t realize, according to media critic Norman Solomon, is that pro-war propaganda has a long history and almost formulaic quality in the United States. From Vietnam to Iraq, American combat-ready spin has almost invariably compared our foe to Hitler, identified our enemy as the aggressor, and said that we were doing everything possible diplomatically to avoid conflict. With this illuminating book, readers will find it easier to see through propaganda–and foresee the next war. amazon.com