Oh please - when it comes to these stone stupid wars - the American people were psy-opped by the cynically corrupt oligarch-pandering administration (both Dem and Rep) and their media shill. Adolf Hitler’s clever tactic of repeating lies often enough works on the fearful populace.

Never underestimate the power of the live demonstration to what a tremenous waste of money the Pentagon exhibits on a daily basis.

RE: “MISSION ALMOST ACCOMPLISHED”

the genius behind THE GLOBAL WAR OF TERROR is its ‘mission impossible’ nature
- eternal self-fulfilling premise:  perpetual rolling black-op/psy-op

Suggestion:  Get them all flack jackets and line them up on the deck of an aircraft carrier with a banner overhead behind them:
 
      “MISSION ALMOST ACCOMPLISHED”.

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Nothing that madison ave isn’t doing to the people of this
country through their beloved msm and huge road side
propaganda venues daily, hourly, by the minute and second.
Pure razzle-dazzle, balderdash enticements to sway
compulsions and distort decisions.

Big objective here is to try to get members of congress to toe the
military industrial complex line. Also shows the nonexistence of
some sort of military action against another sovereign nation
except for robbing that nation of its natural resources,
something the u.s. isn’t capable of doing in any diplomatic or
straight forward business venture.

This is as old as the age of human awareness. Coming from
earliest religions and governments to ‘control’ the masses.
Control the recources, the rhetoric, beliefs and ideology to make
those masses ‘see it your way’.

It is nothing more than a Jedi mind trick!

Bomb Power, The Modern Presidency and National Security State.

Garry Wills, history professor, author, witness to these events.

My, how the U.S. Military Dictatorship is rearing its ugly head…

Running time 32:20, professor of history Garry Wills describes the departure from Constitution after the Manhattan Project and the decent into Empirical Military Rule….

Hear it for yourselves… these military bozos have balls as big and as tough as a Sherman tank, and that’s because THEY KNOW THEY ARE THE BOSS!  The buck stops / starts with them!!! Not the shell in the office of ‘presidente internacional!’

Takes a bit to upload, so click on the movie icon and either here the entire 60 min interview, or wait a few after clicking to get to the halfway point, where he starts to describe his findings and his book: Bomb Power.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?seriesid=00ec12bc-f99a-4696-825c-9b1e0453e1e1

Or you can just keep your head in the sand, or go to Huffington Post / Fox and let your eyes glaze over with more Amerikan dreams.

gerard, February 25 at 2:59 am:

It’s difficult to tell from this article just what “psy-ops” techniques they are talking about. ...

Isn’t it.  I read some statement by a senator huffing and puffing about how no psy-ops could affect him; he was already a big supporter of the war.  Just when it seems our great leaders can’t get dumber or more ridiculous, they prove us wrong again.

In this skewed, alternate reality we inhabit here in the US, doesn’t it seem normal that a top US Army PR officer would describe a psychotic, amoral US Army General as ‘One of the smartest people in the army’?

Rumors are rife that in the Pentagon’s plans for maintaining the current 100-year wars in progress in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the deployment of tanks and drones armed with nuclear tactical weapons to circle the US Capitol 24/7, in the event some Congressperson has the audacity to introduce a bill to reduce funding for our foreign military debacles. And should, ‘god’ forbid, the bill seem to be gaining support, the tank and drone operators have instructions to open their sealed orders, and attack the offices and residences of the legislators involved, as a ‘deterrent’. Could this be true? And if true, what are the chances that the brave, intrepid ‘reporters’ in our MSM will discover and reveal this truth to the US public?

The majority of (D)emocrats *and* (R)epublicans couldn’t have cared less when Army PSYOPS officers were scampering around CNN and NPR studios while Clinton was accomplishing a PNAC goal by bombing Kosovo for 78 days without UN approval.

http://newamericancentury.org/balkans.htm

http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/psyops.htm

http://www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html

So if history is a guide this story will probably fade by Saturday Afternoon and be forgotten until some blogger 4 years from now posts a link to it and 9 people will read about it and shake their head.

And by then we will be told on a daily basis that we need to kick the 529 remaining Taliban out of Pakistan (just 30,000 more troops please).

Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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“You can fool some people sometimes but you couldn’t fool all the people all the time…”
Hon. Robert Nesta Marley, O.M.

@gerard:

It would be nice to know exactly what they were trying
to accomplish and what tactis they were using, but if
the senators are staying anonymous and shying away from
the details, it is probably something that they don’t
*really* want to talk about.  They probably just wish
the military would only use this against people who
aren’t sitting in power from D.C.

seems Gen. Petraeus (or his handlers) alerted to the short fuse, quickly burning
down, on this thing and got out in front of it - calling, himself, for the
investigation, rather than being swept up in it

remember, he is being groomed by neocons to run in 2012 (regardless what he
says on talk shows) - he won’t reach for it - too vulgar - he’ll be drafted - the
thinking-man’s war monger - the Victor of Mesopotamia - the next Eisenhower -
to save the empire from the feckless, failed Obama - the wannabe next Kennedy

also, he’s nobody’s fool - the whole operation could have been designed to take
him unawares - nip his candidacy in the bud

hard to say - too much smoke - too many mirrors

I believe that ‘psych-ops’ strategy is used by Republicans in order to get regular folks to vote against their best interests by targeting and manipulating ingrained emotional systems.

Dwight D. Eisenhower : ” we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted
influence whether sought or unsought by the Military-Industrial Complex - the
potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ”

It’s difficult to tell from this article just what “psy-ops” techniques they are talking about. Worst scenario might be trying to, for instance, get the Senators and Representatives on tour drunk enough to seriously misbehave or divulge personal secrets that could be then used to blackmail them into voting unlimited Pentagon funds on demand.
  I hardly think they are talking about water-boarding McCain or Kerry or Joe Jerk from midstate Kentucky—but, while the possibility might be attractive to some of us, I would advise against it.
Much better to just release a few more leaks of political inanities and then “take down” PayPal so it can’t collect any legal defense funds for the leakers or for the victimized politicians.