[Peace-discuss] Intentionally burying the lede (along with a million dead)

[C. G. Estabrook]

  The NY Times' advertisements for war (misnamed "News" and "Opinion") include 
one overwhelming fact about Americans' opinions.  Buried in the jump from the 
"Week in Review" article about (one aspect of ) the US war in the Mideast - and 
thoroughly cushioned by persiflage - it is revealed that

"In a CBS News poll last week ... 59  percent said that the United States did 
not do the right thing going to war in Iraq in the first place and 72 percent 
said that the war was not worth the loss of life and other costs to the country..."!

These numbers are all the more remarkable because these opinions are simply not 
heard anywhere in the US media.  But people are not fools, in spite of the force 
of government and media propaganda.

By the late 1960's, 70 percent of Americans regarded the war in Vietnam as 
"fundamentally wrong and immoral," /not "a mistake/"  - but that was with  a 
vigorous antiwar movement and hence a higher level of political discussion in 
the media.

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