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War Is Sold Just Like Soda or Toothpaste
White House chief of Staff Andrew Card famously said - in explaining why the Bush administration delayed until September 2002 to make its case for war in Iraq:
From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.
War is - indeed - marketed just like soda or toothpaste.
In fact, the government hired some of the top public relations experts to sell the Iraq and other wars. See this and this.
As the head of Santa Clara University's Center for Applied Ethics wrote in 2003:
Am I the only one who's queasy that the Bush Administration has quite publicly announced plans to sell us on war with Iraq the same way a soda pop company might hype a new soft drink?
Everyone knows that truth is the first casualty of war.
Countries need to lie about their enemies in order to demonize them sufficiently so that the people will support the war.
That is why intelligence "failures" - such as the following - are so common:
- The U.S. Navy's own historians now say that the sinking of the USS Maine -- the justification for America's entry into the Spanish-American War -- was probably caused by an internal explosion of coal, rather than an attack by the Spanish.
- It is also now well-accepted that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which led to the Vietnam war was a fiction (confirmed here).
- And two lies were used to justify the 1991 Gulf TWar: the statement that Iraqis murdered Kuwaiti babies and the statement that a quarter of a million Iraqi troops were massed on the border with Saudi Arabia (see also this article)(technically, the statement about Kuwaiti babies did not come from the U.S. government, but from a public relations firm hired by the government).
That is also why governments from around the world have used false flag incidents for thousands of years to sell their people on whatever wars they wish to launch.
Of course, the demonization process is catapulted far and wide by the mainstream media. Indeed, the corporate media is instrumental in spreading the lies so as to support war.
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Yes, 4 out of 5 Warmongers recommend... well, you know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGv2wqJJmbc&feature=fvw
We have got to get our folks OUT of Iraq,and make a deal w/ Pakistan, to keep enough troops there, to keep them from their Nukes.
EVERYONE else comes home, They are WORN ASS OUT, and we cannot police the world anymore.
IF these countries want us protecting them, THEY PAY for the Upkeep......we cannot.
The whole concept may be old news but it's good to be reminded from time to time.
Post the article again when the drums of war are beating. We'll see the political kool-aid drinkers out in force and a junk-fest will ensue.
The truth was out a long time ago, Georges.
Marine Brigadier General Smedley Butler said it best when he said: "War is a racket".
Here is the full text online for those of you who haven't read it yet: http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
And here is another link to download it: http://www.archive.org/details/WarIsARacket
This text should be required reading in all schools - here are the first few lines of this book:
Replace "World War" by the name of any war, and you realize how much that text is still true.
another great site that hosts smedley:
http://iamthewitness.com/
the stars in that first graphic are a bit off,
see my av.
The Iraq War was actively sold by the NYT via Judith Miller:
http://www.slate.com/id/2095394/
and the Bush administration actually hired a PR firm to steer the media campaign:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1118-10.htm
Miller is now an extremely successful "Security Analyst" and frequently featured commentator on Faux News.
Don't stop there. WW2 was a complete waste of time as well. We had two enemies, Stalin and Hitler, fighting each other. Why did we have to jump in?
same old same old:
http://tracker.zaerc.com/torrents-details.php?id=15137
Good work George...
The USA military empire is like the Roman Empire
long ago... it won't last , money runs out...
MUST SEE:
Four part series called Century Of The Self
HOW THOSE IN POWER HAVE CONTROLLED SOCIETY. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126#
Very good series. Also, for anyone interested in this sort of stuff, check out(particularly the first one):
http://www.amazon.com/Falsehood-Wartime-Propaganda-First-World/dp/093948...
http://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Edward-Bernays/dp/0970312598
http://www.amazon.com/Public-Opinion-Walter-Lippmann/dp/1604599545
http://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Public-Library-Conservative-Thought/dp/156...
I still want to see Bush and Rumsfeld on a quail hunting trip with Cheney....I hear Cheney's aim isn't so good anymore and he can't seem to distinguish a quail from a hunter.
All three of them must be wearing quale costumes.
There's all kinds of murders going on right across the border from El Paso, Texas. Where are all our troops? Afghanistan. Running drone wars to enrich the war machine with more taxpayer money. Let's not forget the weapons of mass destruction as the excuse to invade Iraq. Another damn lie to enrich the war machiners.