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you raise.... a single incident.... of a non-governmental interest group giving false testimony..... to argue that there is a wide-reaching, unknown, conspiracy, by which the United States government secretly controls not only US, but non-U.S. Western media, in order to force them to pass deliberate falsehoods justifying strikes against Middle Eastern Regimes.
Sure. You are right. We are not going to agree on this insanity.
Were the moon landings faked? How about 9/11?
The WH did not control nor have the press repeat the claim that Saddam was behind 9/11. The Press was generally split on the war going into Iraq - far from your claim that somehow they were controlled to provide a single narrative, the public debate in the US was deep and sharp.
:shrug: then you weren't paying attention - which is fine, others pay attention so that you don't have to.
US Defense Contractors do not care if we bomb AQAP (which we should). They care if we buy more F35's, and if we buy more NVG's. Furthermore, Obama placed incredibly tight restrictions on drone strikes against VEO's - the Presidential Planning Guidance includes a level of Near-Certainty that left us deliberately allowing terrorists to plan, train, and strike because we couldn't prove to the President that we were, say, 99.99, v only 95% sure that everyone carrying weapons at (insert a meeting of bad guys here) was a bad guy.
You seem to have "anything short of pacifism" confused with "Bush Era Policy".
If DOD had been allowed to call the shots over the past 8 years, you wouldn't have seen "leading from behind" and the chaos in Libya, for example. You would have seen a much more proactive CT program, a more aggressive counter-Iranian Nuclear program, a more assertive response to Russian aggression, etc. You certainly wouldn't have seen the cuts inside the DOD budget that we've seen (which has hit both uniform and contractor side, incidentally).
This "well, it's all, like, you know, the pentagon, and, like, the corporations, you know, like, controllin the media, and, like, warmongering, and stuff" meme is attractive because it offers a simplistic explanation for a complicated problem that justifies opposition to that which you want to oppose.
Besides. Everyone knows 9/11 and the subsequent invasion of Iraq was a Joint Operation between the Jews, the Illuminati, the Banks, the Jews, Jewish Neocons, and the Jews. It's all about the money, man, don't let the MSM treat you like Sheeple.
I do not believe 9/11 was an inside job, that we faked the moon landing, that the Earth is flat, that Elvis and Tupac are alive, or any outlandish theories about JFK and free masons. I don't know what happened during Roswell. I further no claims of lizard people, Atlantis, or sub surface dwellers.
I'm just a man who reads too much Chris Hedges and Howard Zinn. And I think the government has been lying to the American people about Syria. Obama administration included. I find it highly suspicious that the people's popular opinion, "stay out of Syria." Was disregarded this week. Merely a week ago, Donald Trump was in favor of a hands off approach to Syria. I find it highly suspect that, that position runs contrary to the interests of the military industrial complex. You're not going to get very far with me if you don't accept that the United States does what it does, not for humanitarian, and counter-terrorism purposes, but for special interests and big business. We used to manufacture weapons for wars but, now we make wars for weapons.
There's other atrocity propaganda too, besides the one I linked. I'm not saying the U.S. Government does state-run propaganda. But, MSNBC, does take anchors off air if they are too critical of DC. that is what happened to Phil Donahue's show on MSNBC. During that period post-9/11, and during the first invasion of the Second Gulf War. Donahue was a vocal critic of the war and MSNBC took him off air.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue
Soon after the show's cancellation, an internal MSNBC memo was leaked to the press stating that Donahue should be fired because he opposed the imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq and that he would be a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war."[20] Donahue commented in 2007 that the management of MSNBC, owned by General Electric and Comcast, required that "we have two conservative (guests) for every liberal. I was counted as two liberals."[21]
They took Donahue off air because he was criticizing, with legitimacy the Bush Administration.
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