The Man Behind the Curtain - all DU'ers need to read this!!

I got chills up and down my spine reading this article about the man who organizes the PR disinformation campaigs of this and past administrations.

This last line scares the living day lights out of me:
"We lost control of the context," Rendon warned. "That has to be fixed for the next war."

Read the rest at...
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/1722722.php

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Strapped to the polygraph machine was Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, a forty-three-year-old Iraqi who had fled his homeland in Kurdistan and was now determined to bring down Saddam Hussein. For hours, as thin mechanical styluses traced black lines on rolling graph paper, al-Haideri laid out an explosive tale. Answering yes and no to a series of questions, he insisted repeatedly that he was a civil engineer who had helped Saddam's men to secretly bury tons of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. The illegal arms, according to al-Haideri, were buried in subterranean wells, hidden in private villas, even stashed beneath the Saddam Hussein Hospital, the largest medical facility in Baghdad.

It was damning stuff -- just the kind of evidence the Bush administration was looking for. If the charges were true, they would offer the White House a compelling reason to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. That's why the Pentagon had flown a CIA polygraph expert to Pattaya: to question al-Haideri and confirm, once and for all, that Saddam was secretly stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

There was only one problem: It was all a lie. After a review of the sharp peaks and deep valleys on the polygraph chart, the intelligence officer concluded that al-Haideri had made up the entire story, apparently in the hopes of securing a visa.

The fabrication might have ended there, the tale of another political refugee trying to scheme his way to a better life. But just because the story wasn't true didn't mean it couldn't be put to good use. Al-Haideri, in fact, was the product of a clandestine operation -- part espionage, part PR campaign -- that had been set up and funded by the CIA and the Pentagon for the express purpose of selling the world a war. And the man who had long been in charge of the marketing was a secretive and mysterious creature of the Washington establishment named John Rendon.
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More at the site(Originally a Rolling Stone article)

crossroads.

my problem isn't that these guys exist -- it's that upon knowing they exist -- so many liberals, democrats, lefties -- continue to push a soft pedal approach to getting back control.

liberals of all stripes have decades and decades ahead of them -- tackling aggressive, repressive christians, anti tax freaks, undercover operatives like rendon{there are more like him buried around} corporations.

the task is huge. or hugh1.

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