Reply #67: I'm just [View All]

a part-time DUer, not a full-time journalist, politician or researcher so don't have time to make citations etc.

It's just from years of reading DU and following the news cycle and looking behind the news, you get a feel for what might really be happening. Sometimes the speculations turn out to be true, sometimes false but most of the time we never know because the news cycle moves on.

However, it's not beyond the powers of the neocons to manipulate events of whatever scale to suit their ends. Just consider their billion dollar PR budget not to mention the 8-billion dollars that went missing in Iraq and the trillion dollar "black-hole" at the Pentagon. Then there's Iran/Contra, funding of the Mujahideen, the "fix" in Florida 2000, Ohio 2004, lies about 9/11, WMD, Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch, Katrina, Abramoff, Plame, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo etc etc.

This is not proof of anything in this case but just an illustration that things can and will be manipulated behind the scenes so it's always best not to take things at face value.

Yesterday's conspiracy theory is today's scandal and tomorrow's fishwrap.

on edit: added Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch as examples of individual stories that have been manipulated.