[Peace-discuss] Hillary corrupts AI for U.S. propaganda

[C. G. Estabrook]

Right about Iraq - Hillary's army (the troops, mercs, & officials  
under State Department command) amounts to about a division (~15,000  
peeps) in Iraq, with the world's largest embassy (where email will now  
be more closely monitored, under the new ambassador...).

Wrong about the economy - the war supports the merchants of death  
("defense contractors" & mercenaries), academics, and many others who  
are unable to work in vanished US industries and so become soldiers;  
control of world oil flows influences the world economy; and  
propaganda about the constant threat of terrorism allows the  
suppression of the demand for economic justice at home.

"War is good for business: invest your sons," we said in Vietnam days.  
Thank goodness we've got over that sexism; now we can invest daughters  
as well. Drones alone can produce enough terrorism to justify invasion  
& occupation.

AI explains that we have to keep killing children in Afghanistan (and  
elsewhere) for the sake of the women...


On Jun 19, 2012, at 6:45 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:

> Christopher Dodd was on Russia Today yesterday talking about the  
> relationship
> between Russia and the USA.  Interestingly he admitted that the war  
> was exhausting
> the US economy.
>
> He also said that the US was out of Iraq except for the troops that  
> are still there.
>
>
> On 6/20/2012 7:37 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> <http://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/18/amnestys-shilling-for-us-wars/>
>>
>> '...In the decades after Vietnam, a number of military scholars  
>> identified declining American public support for that war as the  
>> main factor responsible for the U.S. “losing” Vietnam. One lesson  
>> learned and quickly implemented was to get rid of the military  
>> draft and put the wars on a credit card so fewer citizens would pay  
>> attention.
>>
>> 'Some control also had to be gained over the type of free media  
>> (that led to trusted TV anchor Walter Cronkite broadcasting his  
>> public souring on the Vietnam War). A whole series of war  
>> propaganda systems, from planting retired generals as “talking  
>> heads” on TV to the assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  
>> deciding to “embed the media,” have worked pretty well to maintain  
>> the necessary level of war momentum in mainstream media and amongst  
>> public opinion...'
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