NEBRASKA BLUE

The New York Times pulls back the curtain on the Pentagon
running a disinformation campaign against the American public.
They were, and probably still are, using retired Military Officers as
propogandists to support the Administration’s talking points.

FULL STORY HERE - LINK

Here is one lovely bit of information..

Many also shared with Mr. Bush’s national security team a belief that pessimistic war coverage broke the nation’s will to win in Vietnam, and there was a mutual resolve not to let that happen with this war.

This was a major theme, for example, with Paul E. Vallely, a Fox News analyst from 2001 to 2007. A retired Army general who had specialized in psychological warfare, Mr. Vallely co-authored a paper in 1980 that accused American news organizations of failing to defend the nation from “enemy” propaganda during Vietnam.

“We lost the war — not because we were outfought, but because we were out Psyoped,” he wrote. He urged a radically new approach to psychological operations in future wars — taking aim at not just foreign adversaries but domestic audiences, too. He called his approach “MindWar” — using network TV and radio to “strengthen our national will to victory.”

The Selling of the War

From their earliest sessions with the military analysts, Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides spoke as if they were all part of the same team.

In interviews, participants described a powerfully seductive environment — the uniformed escorts to Mr. Rumsfeld’s private conference room, the best government china laid out, the embossed name cards, the blizzard of PowerPoints, the solicitations of advice and counsel, the appeals to duty and country, the warm thank you notes from the secretary himself.

“Oh, you have no idea,” Mr. Allard said, describing the effect. “You’re back. They listen to you. They listen to what you say on TV.” It was, he said, “psyops on steroids” — a nuanced exercise in influence through flattery and proximity. “It’s not like it’s, ‘We’ll pay you $500 to get our story out,’ ” he said. “It’s more subtle.”

The access came with a condition. Participants were instructed not to quote their briefers directly or otherwise describe their contacts with the Pentagon.

In the fall and winter leading up to the invasion, the Pentagon armed its analysts with talking points portraying Iraq as an urgent threat. The basic case became a familiar mantra: Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons, was developing nuclear weapons, and might one day slip some to Al Qaeda; an invasion would be a relatively quick and inexpensive “war of liberation.”

At the Pentagon, members of Ms. Clarke’s staff marveled at the way the analysts seamlessly incorporated material from talking points and briefings as if it was their own.

The next time someone in the main stream media trots out a retired General or Admiral
to talk about the war, or current events, we would all do well to remember that these men
are NOT impartial, most of them sit on the boards of, or work for the Defense industry.
As lobbyists or spokesmen.

Or as shown above, most of them are simply mouthpieces for the Psyops campaign the Department of Defense is waging on the American people.

Just thought you would like to know.

By the way there are a couple of honest men out there that spoke the truth as they saw it
regardless of what Bush or Rumsfeld wanted to hear. As soon as they departed from the
standard spin coming out of those in power in the Whitehouse and the Pentagon they were fired for it.

The names Fallon and Shinsecki should ring a bell for some of you.

Honorable men forced out because they told the truth.