War Made Easy. Washington Post *Still* at it. [View All]

If anyone has not seen the movie documentary by Norman Solomon, or the book, i urge you to do so. Now.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/56526/

This should help inspire you. Today the WaPo, who helped lead the nation to war (although, without doubt, the New York Times, with articles by Judith Miller and others, led the pack of media bloody war hounds) did this article "As Democracy Push Falters, Bush Feels Like a 'Dissident'"

In Solomon's book, one of his points is that the media may eventually say that US engagement in some part of the world is "misguided" or "mismanaged"... but they never, never, say that the committment of u.s. troops is anything other than well-intended. Of course the motive is always good, its just, wasn't perhaps "realistic". So naturally the Post does this hot-air article on Bush's championing of "democracy" and they do not question the assumption. They will never suggest that he had any other motivation... like empire-building, like helping US allies in the region (that are themselves embroiled in conflict and with their own brutal military occupations to defend), like control of natural resources.

It is always the spread of "Democracy"

the reason that we must confront this is because it has been done time and time again, by Presidents of both party's, from warbutcher LBJ's invasion of Dominican Republic, escalation in Vietnam, to Nixon's genocidal bombing of Vietnam, to Clinton's bombing of Iraq, and then finally W Bush and his war crimes. never, ever do they question the motivation.

If we do not stop this, if we don't get to the root, the US elite's propensity for violence and coercion and domination, this will continue with the next president whoever he/she may be.

e.g. Hillary is already said that the problem with the Iraq war is not that Bush illegally invaded a sovereign country... but the problem is that the Iraqi Arabs have not cooperated in that endeavor.

We must never let the media help lead us to war again by spreading this kind of idiocy unchallenged.