Weapons of Mass Deception
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On 10/26/10, Keith In Tampa <keithintampa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ellen Knickmeyer writes for the Daily Beast. Another George Soros funded
> spin web-zine.
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> Young Ellen writes about events that took place over four years ago, and
> long before the troop surge instituted by the Bush Administration,
> *sans*Donald Rumsfeld.
>
> Moreover, no one lied. On January 10, 2007, during the Presidential
> Address to the Nation, President Bush stated that "80% of Iraq's sectarian
> violence occurs within 30 miles of the capital. This violence is splitting
> Baghdad into sectarian enclaves, and shaking the confidence of all Iraqis."
>
> Again, more far left, Moonbat rehtoric, lies and spin Michael.
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> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:08 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:
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>>
>> *WikiLeaks Exposes Rumsfeld's Lies
>> *by Ellen Knickmeyer
>> October 25, 2010 | 7:31am
>>
>> *Recent revelations by WikiLeaks show how top American leaders lied,
>> knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world.
>> Ellen Knickmeyer on the carnage she saw as Baghdad bureau chief.
>>
>> *In the dark morning hours of Feb. 22, 2006, a group of unknown attackers
>> detonated bombs in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, bringing down the
>> golden dome of a revered Shia Muslim shrine.
>>
>> A few hours later, I drove through Baghdad and watched the country descend
>> into civil war. Then the Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post, I
>> drove with Iraqi and American colleagues to Sadr City, the sprawling slum
>> on
>> the outskirts of the city. We watched hundreds of black-clad religious
>> militiamen, waving their AK 47s in the air and calling for revenge, in
>> what
>> would be the start to a campaign of sectarian killing and torture.
>>
>> During visits to Baghdad's morgue over the next two days, I saw Sunni
>> families thronging to find _WalmartAd_the bodies of loved ones killed by
>> the
>> militias. The morgue's computer registrar told the grim-faced families and
>> me that we would have to be patient; the morgue had taken in more than
>> 1,000
>> bodies since the Samarra bombing, and was way behind on processing
>> corpses.
>>
>> Here's the thing, though: According to then-Secretary of Defense Donald
>> Rumsfeld and his top commanders, it never happened. These killings, these
>> dead, did not exist. According to them, reporters like myself were lying.
>>
>> "The country is not awash in sectarian violence,'' the top U.S. commander
>> in Iraq, Gen. George Casey said, on talk show after talk show, making the
>> rounds to tell the American home-front not to worry. Civil war? "I don't
>> see
>> it happening, certainly anytime in the near term," he said, as he denied
>> the
>> surge in sectarian violence.
>>
>> Casey had taken his own drive around
>> Baghdad<http://osd.dtic.mil/news/Mar2006/20060319_4546.html>after the
>> bombing of the Samarra mosque and had seen, not executed bodies in
>> the streets but "a lot of bustle, a lot of economic activity. Store fronts
>> crowded, goods stacked up on the street."
>>
>> Donald Rumsfeld held a news conference at the Pentagon to say that U.S.
>> press reports of killingssuch as mine that estimated 1,300 dead in the
>> immediate aftermath of the bombing, based on what I had seen at the
>> morgue,
>> interviews with Sunni survivors, U.N. and Iraq health officialswere
>> calculated "exaggerated reporting." Iraqi security forces, he
>> said<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030700792.html>,
>> "were taking the lead in controlling the situation," everything he assured
>> his listeners was "calming."
>>
>> Here's the thing, though: According to then-Secretary of Defense Donald
>> Rumsfeld and his top commanders, it never happened. These killings, these
>> dead, did not exist.
>>
>> American journalists in Baghdad were under attack not just from Iraqi
>> insurgents, but, at least verbally, from our own country's civilian and
>> military commanders as well.
>>
>> After the mosque bombing, I had the twisting-in-the-wind experience of
>> attending the weekly press briefings at the Green Zonethis war's four o'
>> clock folliesand have the military spokesman insist that things were
>> great,
>> implying that the problem wasn't the executed and mutilated bodies now
>> found
>> in the streets; the problem was people like me.
>>
>> Thanks to WikiLeaks, though, I now know the extent to which top American
>> leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and
>> to
>> the world, as the Iraq mission exploded.
>>
>> The American troops, who were risking their lives on the ground, witnessed
>> and documented it
>> themselves<http://wikileaks.org/id/56F678BE-3F65-44D9-BEDF-65E365007F75/>
>> .
>>
>> Heavily redacted, the log entries offer surreal but chilling glimpses of
>> the chaos that followed the Samarra bombing on Feb. 22. Within hours of
>> the
>> bombing, U.S. troops reported gunmen attacking; open street fighting
>> between
>> Shia and Sunni militias; rocket-propelled grenade attacks on mosques;
>> assassinations and kidnappings.
>>
>> Later, one U.S. military patrol happens on militia members dumping bodies
>> on the side of the street. The killers speed away, leaving the American
>> soldiers with a grim discovery: "bodies shot in the face…still warm,"
>> according to one log.
>>
>> _WalmartAd_Iraq was not "calming," as Rumsfeld would have it. Rather, this
>> was sectarian war, and, over the next few months, the Bush
>> administration's
>> effort to convince the world that everything was hunky-dory in Iraq became
>> less and less sustainable as the slaughter continued. According to the
>> synopsis of the WikiLeaks documents by The New York Times, the death toll
>> in
>> 2006 reached beyond 3,000 one month.
>>
>> Late last year, I sat in on a seminar at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School
>> of Government led by a former Bush official in Iraq and heard her say
>> matter-of-factly that more than 1,000 people died in one day in the
>> immediate killing after the Samarra bombing.
>>
>> But as the WikiLeaks documents show, Casey and Rumsfeld must have known
>> that all along, owing to the accounts from their forces. Despite the
>> statements of the top U.S. commanders at the time, it wasn't the
>> journalists
>> in Baghdad who were lying.
>>
>> *Ellen Knickmeyer is a former Washington Post bureau chief in Baghdad and
>> Cairo. Before coming to the Post, she was the West Africa bureau chief for
>> The Associated Press. This year, she graduated from Harvard University's
>> Kennedy School of Government.
>>
>>
>> *
>> http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-25/wikileaks-shows-rumsfeld-and-casey-lied-about-the-iraq-war/full/
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Art of War and Warfare:
I received an email from a conservative friend of mine who lives in the People’s Republic of California and he was discussing the current administration and their bungling diplomacies, etc. and discussing chess as a game to plan war strategies, etc. I responded to my good friend with the following and entitled it the Art Of Warfare:
Exactly Doc–First of all, if you find it necessary to go to war, you then have to have as your goal, winning the war. Then, you make a plan. Then, you implement your plan. If your plan is not working, regroup and figure out why said plan did not work, and then make necessary adjustments to said plan, and act on it. And like in any planning, only scrap what does not work, keep what was working well, and then get on with the plan until your goal is achieved. If your original assessment was that war was not only the right thing to do and thus necessary, then you owe it to the cause of good and to your soldiers and to your citizens and allies to achieve the goal of defeating the enemy you found it necessary to go to war with to begin with. And, to date, in history, no wars that involved the forces of perceived good and evil, has the war been won with words and diplomacy. Diplomacy comes after you have defeated your enemy and you let the enemy know what his future rules of civility are going to be if you have any vested interest and right to be involved with his country to begin with. And, if what you are telling the enemy what his rules of civility are going to be, you have to be sure that what those rules are, are acceptable to what the majority of the citizens of said nation want. And, if you do not have the people on your side, maybe you should not be there to begin with, unless the only way to keep the nation from being an aggressor is to occupy them and keep them in check. And, with a place like the middle east where you have Muslim Regimes, who have 20th and 21st century technologies and 10th century BC mentalities, you either have to take away their technologies or capabilities of using said technologies when it comes to warfare technologies. Or, if you are not willing to do this, then you must make sure that you keep their leaders in Check to insure that they will never use those technologies against their neighbors or against any other non-aggressor nation. If the war in Iraq was necessary, then it is our responsibility now to stay in the area long enough to finish the job in the region and that may require the permanent occupation of Iraq with permanent bases to keep the Iranians and other hostiles in perpetual Check Mate. In the meantime, if part of our reason for being there is OIL because we need it, then we need to lessen the need for their oil by extracting and using our own oil which, according to our own geologists, we have plenty of it. And, as a nation, we cannot allow a group of enviro-whack jobs who have their own personalized goals and beliefs and agendas to keep us from extracting our own energy resources wherever those resources are located. And, also, when the enviro-whack jobs are endangering national security, these whack jobs need to be investigated and see which of our other enemies are they either knowingly or unknowingly colluding with. The Liberal Mindset in this country at the highest levels of power is the greatest national security threat this nation faces. And, many of them are knowingly colluding with our enemies, while, I am sure that most of them are just unknowing and ignorant pawns who go along to get along for their own selfish needs for power and approval of the powers that be. Looking at the makeup of our congress, I have never seen such an amassed group of fools and incompetents, who are able to wield so much power with an unlimited Checking Account. The current makeup of our leadership in this country is the biggest assortment of fools, lunatics, incompetents, criminals, subversives, perverts and enemy spies that I have ever witnessed. You could not plan and implement a More Perfect Storm for Disaster than what we have assembled in our government today. And, if we do not recognize this current congress and president for what and who they are, and remove them at the ballot box, and then begin to Down Size their Powers and the Abilities for them to Make another Mess of the sort they have already created, our days as a free an sovereign people living in a free and sovereign nation are numbered. This current government and it’s leadership are in bed with our enemies and in some cases, our enemies are already in positions of power in our government. The downsizing of government is absolutely necessary, and by downsizing, I mean the elimination of some of the major Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, and Departments that do no good at all and in fact, are doing great harm to our country. And, along with these Major Unconstitutional ABCD’s of Bureaucracy, you eliminate the thousands of Tentacles of these major Bureaucracies that are spread out all over the nation like a massive root ball in a potted plant when the plant outgrows the pot. The major war we now face as a nation is the war at home. And, the citizenry of this nation have to be awakened and educated to the fact that our current government is beyond incompetent, they are criminally and suicidally incompetent. And, if we do not Win The War at home, we will continue to play into the hands of our enemies, and we will deliver the weapons and tools that our enemies will take and then destroy us and our allies with. This is the case in the middle east now. Iran is still using technologies that we gave them. The Iran we have today is the creation of Feel Good Incompetents in this government, both present and past. You can go back to Jimmy Carter, who was another incompetent warm and fuzzy president who had drank the communist kool-aid, and see how his policies put the Islamic Lunatics in power who toppled the Shah who was the head of an elected and civilized society. And, you can mark Jimmy Carter’s Presidency as the Beginning of this Islamic Terrorist War that we are still fighting today. Today, we can win the war at home with words that educate and awaken The Masses of Americans who are ignorant and are kept that way by our MSM, Hollywood, Politicians and the Public Schools. We have to end the Official Brainwashing, Lying and Propaganda Campaigns that have been waged on this country by our very so-called leaders, and tell folks what is really going on. It is my firm belief as an educator, that people make much better decisions when they are armed with the truth and good information. Mostly what the citizens of our country are being fed today are Lies, Propaganda, and Dis-Information, and it is my belief that the majority of these Lies, Propaganda and Dis-Information is being disseminated purposely by Our Leaders and the MSM and Hollywood is providing the Megaphone to Broadcast these Lies, Propaganda and Dis-Information. And, the majority of the citizens, are merely pawns who have Bought The Lies and believe the lies to be truths, and therefore are making daily decisions based on what they believe to be facts, when in fact, they have been lied to deliberately and dumbed down deliberately by the powers that be. The Liberal Democrats and other Nefarious Enemies of our Freedoms know the level of ignorance and illiteracy that exists in the USA today, because they have purposely engineered this dumbing down and brainwashing campaign over the past 4 decades, and they Prey On This Ignorance, thus the Election of the Likes of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Al Cee Hastings, John Lewis, Barbara Boxer, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden and the rest of the Capitol Hill Gang of thugs, thieves, subversives, perverts, communists and other assorted misfits, criminals, and deadbeats. And, many of them are also Lawyers, who through the writing of laws that only lawyers can understand, are perpetuating the incompetency at the highest levels of government as they perpetuate their own legalistic and litigious culture. What America Needs to Hear is Common Sense spoken In Language that anybody can understand, and what Americans need is Good, Honest and Factual Information. Armed with Good Information, Most Americans, in spite of the decades of dumbing down and brainwashing, will make better decisions. The Only Way to Defeat Our Current Government is to Expose This Government and The Criminals and Incompetents that are perpetuating it. And, you do this by Telling The Public The Truth. Americans Can Handle The Truth if give an opportunity to See and Hear the Truth. It is not that most Americans believe the lies they are being told today, it is just that most Americans today, do not trust what anybody says as they have become cynical and believe that They All Lie, so what’s the difference???? Well, the difference is this: We now have a Marxist President who was Elected By An Illiterate Populace who Believed His Lies and Who Voted in a Politically Correct Way as opposed to Having An Incompetent President if we had elected John McCain. But, the difference is that John McCain’s patriotism and love of this nation cannot be questioned, whereas Mr. Obama’s love of this country can be questioned, and should be questioned based on his past and present words and deeds. Some say that in elections, you only select the lesser of 2 evils, but what you wind up with is still Evil. But, I can assure you that given the difference in evils of Obama and McCain, I will pick McCain’s Mamby Pamby Incompetence anyday of the week over Obama’s Direct Subversion and Hatred of the U.S.A. and our standing in the nation, which he seems to be determined to tear down. Thanks–Have a good day. Jerome
Wow, Grey: “Well, the difference is this: We now have a Marxist President who was Elected By An Illiterate Populace…”
No wonder we are illiterate. We are eagerly awaiting the invention of the paragraph.
I will second that.
I second that too.
By non-marked paragraph three, I stopped reading.
“paragraph: a distinct passage of text, dealing with one particular point of the subject . . . beginning on a new, usually indented line.” (Canadian Oxford Dictionary)
Greyhawk, paragraphing is user-friendly and makes it more likely that people will read what you write. Try it!
third and fourth that..my eyes went crazy.. why do you guys put stuff like this up> It might be great but we’ll never know
‘Good point, sally.
I used to moderate blog entries at another site: I always paragraphed an entry like Greyhawk’s. Most other moderators had neither the time nor the inclination to do that. I altogether understand, but I’m a grammar convention junkie and, literally, couldn’t put up a post like Greyhawk’s until it was cleaned up.
But, now that I’m not moderating, I’ve got a lot more time to make posts!
What are you trying to say?