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US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia
surfi writes "As The Inquirer points out, someone with a House of Representatives IP address has been feeding propaganda into the 'invasion of Iraq' article on Wikipedia."
Well at least they are in good company with trustworthy institutions like
the CIA and the Vatican.
Hi Dave, long time, no propaganda. Glad to see you are still defending the honor of our government. How's that paying these days?
You can cry crocodile tears all you want. We are not going to stop pointing out that people like you get paid to try to make the populace think a certain way. You will never post anything here without me questioning your motives and pointing out what you do. You may as well take your propaganda machine elsewhere for all the good it will do you. People here are too smart to be fooled by your sophistry.
Have you ever written anything critical of the status quo? Would you be fired if you did?
P.S. Wondering why I talk to Dave like this? Read his home page. You don't even have to read between the lines.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Someone in the House of Representatives, most likely a Republican staffer, edited a wikipedia article with their side of the story. What in god's green earth is wrong with that? Certainly, if Wikipedia is going to be everybody, then shouldn't it well, be, open to everyone.
The fault here is that wikipedia has even made an issue of this at all. Or, anyone has. It seems that what's really going on is an attempt to muzzle a certain political party by implying that they have no right to make certain edits.
Sure, one could make the argument that Osama Bin Laden and Saddam never collaborated, blah blah. But I see this as the same sort of thing that existed between Germany and Japan in WWII. They both said they hated the USA, and therefor, once the USA was in a state of war, it only makes sense to go deal with all of its enemies, rather than just anyone. That way, you get the war over with more quickly. Anyone with half a brain knows that US foreign policy is to use any act of aggression against it as an excuse to invade an entire region. We're just doing what the Romans did.
If you then take that approach, its entirely reasonable to believe, even if it could never be proved, that OBL and Saddam talked to each other at least through functionaries. I mean, you have two bad guys, they both know the USA is coming after them, (even prior to 9/11, we were), so, why not exchange a few notes?
Bottom line is, they were both anti-US guys. Had the invasion of Iraq gone more quickly, there's little doubt Team USA would have marched into Iran and Syria as well, and probably would have done something about that idiot in Venezuala.
Of course, it didn't work out that way. But, at least, the USA did accomplish something. There's been no attack against the domestic USA, OBL is on the run and is basically marginalized, and Saddam is dead. We didn't get the hold enchilada, but ultimately, the plan did work.
This is my sig.
You're probably not counting the 15,000 or so suicides among U.S. troops in the past 2 years alone. I'm sure as hell you're not counting the million-odd dead Iraqis, but then you might be considering them all terrorists. Enemy combatants. Like the American citizens kept safe by their own extrajudicial executions. They were enemy combatants too.
The wealth of the US is being systematically removed, and the natural resources of the world are being systematically repurposed. "War on terror" is really a war on the boogeyman, used to play the suckers into selling their children into perpetual servitude. That's treason and a crime against humanity that makes the Nazi crimes pale in comparison. Really. Pol Pot never had that kind of ambition.
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Your post is seriously idiotic. It has absolutely *nothing* to do with the point presented by the parent poster. Die.
evil adrian
I agree.
The appearance of incompetience is one of the greatest tools of this manipulative government apparatus. The US Government is entirely competent when they want to be. Usually when big things fail (especially when they faily spectacularly, like Iraq) you can bet that it is because whoever is truly calling the shots wanted it that way, and not just for fun, but usually to an end - to serve a purpose. That purpose may be so that people will cry out for government to fix the big fuckup, which is when these operators' (politicians, those who run intel operations, and favorite son contractors) eyes really glaze over - because that's when the money and power is given away to them; or it may be when they are finally allowed to do things which they wanted to do in the first place but did not have the ability to get done (EG like splitting Iraq into 3 to 5 regions).
Facts are disturbing. Why would I want to bother my beautiful mind with facts, when I can get more toys by blithely burning my conscience to the ground?
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