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

[C. G. Estabrook]

<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...'