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War Made Easy
Friday, March 14, 2008
Columnist and media expert Norman Solomon claims that the US media have often acted as a propaganda arm of the Pentagon. A new documentary based on his book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, begins March 14 at The Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street).
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This guy gets it, not only the lying part, but also why (laughingly-referrred-to-as) journalists went along with it. Career advancement.
Does Solomon have an opinion on Obama's warmongering possibilities?
I am from East Europe and when I came to USA I was shocked to see how much bigger is the propaganda HERE.
I am not a military expert and I don't have intelligence data etc. but I knew for sure that this war (and some others in the past) was not right and was built on lies. If most of the citizens just used their brains and some logic - lots of lives would be saved. You would think that after horrible effects of Vietnam war, this country would never go to any war again. I am also angry with all of those generals and politicians who write books and claim they had wrong data. Next time - ask ME for data.
Films like this need to be available for free on the internet so that a large number of people might see it. Those of us who already know will make it to The Quad to see the film and that's NOT enough.
Mr. Solomon is just wrong about Iraq! All intel form the Clinton and Bush Admins. as well as most international intel said Iraq had WMD's. Sadam Hussein wanted the world to think he had WMD's to thwart Iran. The UN report referred to stated that Iraq was a trainer and financial backer of numerous terrorist groups, conducted international acts of terror and had contacts with al qaeda. So who's lying now! I guess if you wish hard enough all facts can be ignored or changed to suit your preconceived notions!
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