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Hi, here's some very important information I've found recently that I'd like to pass on to you.
A couple of books by two authors, Rampton and Stauber, have shocked me to the foundation! It's become fashionable to criticize the current administration for the war in Iraq, but do you know the real story? America is suffering from the effects of "Incestuous Amplification," the military term for believing your own propaganda.
And it's that word, propaganda, that's important here. If you value your freedom as an American, this information is vital!"How are nations ruled and led into war? Politicians lie to journalists and then believe those lies when they see them in print." -Austrian journalist Karl Wiegand, explaining the causes of the First World War. (Think about the Smith-Mundt Act, which was first passed by Congress in 1948 because of the harm that propaganda had done during Hitler's reign in Germany. Proganda is alive and well in the USA.)Please read on. You can find the books at the bottom of this page.
Be well and happy,
Marty Leaveanton 610-845-7389
Who lost Iraq? We‘ve met the enemy - it‘s our own
propaganda machine
From the bestselling authors of Weapons of Mass Deception,
a compelling new book offers a hard-hitting, factual dismantling
of the Bush Administration‘s claims about the Iraq War,
from its inception to the latest debacles:
THE BEST WAR EVER
Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq
by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
”What do we do with Iraq?' is the biggest question facing the United States today in its global war
on terror. But before we can begin to formulate a solution to the current mess, we must understand
what went wrong. In THE BEST WAR EVER (Tarcher/Penguin; On sale: September 14, 2006)
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, authors of the bestselling Weapons of Mass Deception,
reveal the potent cocktail of deceit, arrogance, and wishful thinking that got us where we are today.
With careful research and thoroughly documented evidence, the authors show how American leaders
came to believe their own propaganda, manipulated (or manufactured) the facts to fit their beliefs,
and plunged the U.S. into a disastrous conflict that grows more bloody by the hour. And they
reveal the way in which the media, by refusing to question some of the information coming
from the administration, played a significant role.
In 2003, exactly three years ago, Rampton and Stauber published the New York Times bestselling
WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush‘s War on Iraq. At a time
when the U.S. government was still insisting that Saddam had indeed stockpiled WMDs and that we
would find them in Iraq, Rampton and Stauber revealed–headline by headline, news show by news
show, press conference by press conference–the deliberate, aggressive, and highly successful public
relations campaign that sold the Iraqi war to the American public.
Now that public opinion has turned against the war, and even military generals and leading
Republicans are calling Iraq a lost cause, the finger pointing has begun. The news media, poor
planning, bad intelligence, US atrocities and torture–all these are being blamed for the mess in Iraq.
But the truth is that the United States defeated itself, by believing its own propaganda. Yes, lies were
told by the Bush Administration, but it fooled no one more than itself.
—We‘re no longer a superpower,“ former House Majority Leader Tom Delay told a Fox News
correspondent a few months before the war began. —We‘re a super-duper-power…When we lead,
others will follow.“ For Delay, and many others like him, the preemptive war on Iraq did indeed look
like the best war ever–a "cakewalk,“ a "slam-dunk,“ a chance for an invincible America to flex its
muscles and show the world how to spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
From the fraudulent —intelligence“ used to support the assertion that Saddam had WMD, to the
deliberate efforts to discredit, silence, and punish critics of the White House, to the total lack of
post-war planning, THE BEST WAR EVER lays bare the fallacies and follies behind the Iraq war–
including not just the lead-up to the war but also the continued mishandling of operations in Iraq.
THE BEST WAR EVER sheds new light on:
Through detailed research and carefully documented evidence, THE BEST WAR EVER offers a devastating critique of the Iraq War. Not only do Rampton and Stauber prove that the entire war has been predicated upon willful misinformation and propaganda, with disastrous consequences - they also teach the American public how to wake up and not be misled again.
- The politicizing of intelligence gathering and the administration's dismissal of any analysis that didn't confirm the White House's preconceived conclusions about Iraq;
- The lead-up to the decision to invade Iraq, including the uncritical acceptance by over 40 prominent American newspapers of the assertion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and the administration's refusal to accept the reports of UN Weapons inspectors in Iraq who stated that they had found no signs of biological or chemical weapons;
- The administration's reliance on untrustworthy sources for information about Iraq, such as the now discredited Ahmed Chalabi and the notorious "Curveball," a man German intelligence officers had described as to US officials as "insane";
- The role Judith Miller played, under the guise of "journalistic integrity," in protecting the most powerful men in government so that they could continue to deceive the public;
- The Pentagon's refusal to consider 2,000 pages of reports compiled by experts, many of them former Iraqis, about how to manage post-war Iraq;
- The Defense Department's spending of hundreds of millions of dollars on third party PR firms, whose attempts to manage public opinion included planting pro-coalition "news" stories in the Iraqi press;
- The staggering number of civilian and military deaths in Iraq since the war began, estimated at over 100,000 - and the administration's attempts to cover up the number of casualties and to keep images of injured and deceased soldiers out of the news;
- The mounting chaos in Iraq, where the risk of death by violence is 58 times higher now than before the war
I've also included another book by these two very smart guys, "Trust Us, We've Experts." This book revealed to me how deeply deceived you and I and even the major media are by the major corporations in America - how we're literally being killed by mis-information as the big companies use the "Third Party" public relations technique to sell us on dangerous products and ideas. It's an ABSOLUTE MUST READ.
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