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Administration Propaganda  Worse Than We Thought

Clarke (Victoria Clarke, then the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs) and her senior aide, Brent T. Krueger, eventually signed up more than 75 retired military officers who penned newspaper op/ed columns and appeared on television and radio news shows as military analysts. The Pentagon held weekly meetings with the military analysts, which continued as of April 20, 2008, when the New York Times ran Barstow’s story. The program proved so successful that it was expanded to issues besides the Iraq War.

Barbara Bush, George Sr’s wife once said of the occupation of Iraq, “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” Maybe that was the mentality at work here. Why bother the American public with the truth. They’ll just spoon feed the public some rhetorical Zanex and let them go back to eating their dinner.

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It makes you wonder if Bill O’Reilly is part Japanese,  Nose-picking lawmaker to shout his last good-bye

Taiwan’s cabinet will soon lose one of its more colorful members who was notorious for sleeping in parliament, shouting at legislators, picking his nose in public and shoving a journalist.