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3. "you would have seen hundreds of Kuwaitis waving small American flags,'"
Thu Jul 11, 2013, 01:37 PM
Jul 2013

Republicans and their shadowy corporate alliances skillfully use propaganda to color the perception of the American voters. And they've been doing it for a long long time.....

Wikipedia:The Rendon Group: Kuwait

The Rendon Group's work in Kuwait continued after the war itself had ended. 'If any of you either participated in the liberation of Kuwait City ... or if you watched it on television, you would have seen hundreds of Kuwaitis waving small American flags,' John Rendon said in his speech to the NSC. 'Did you ever stop to wonder how the people of Kuwait City, after being held hostage for seven long and painful months, were able to get hand-held American flags? And for that matter, the flags of other coalition countries? Well, you now know the answer. That was one of my jobs.'"[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendon_Group#Kuwait



The Man Who Sold the War
Published on Friday, November 18, 2005 by Rolling Stone - by James Bamford

Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war

The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand.

On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer attached metal electrodes to the ring and index fingers of a man sitting pensively in a padded chair. The officer then stretched a black rubber tube, pleated like an accordion, around the man's chest and another across his abdomen. Finally, he slipped a thick cuff over the man's brachial artery, on the inside of his upper arm.

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.
~snip~



http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1118-10.htm

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Sick of fake patriots! [View all] babylonsister Jul 2013 OP
Any adult who couldn't understand this piece either can't read English or is brain dead. nt ladjf Jul 2013 #1
LOL @ "Stockholm Syndrome"! NYC_SKP Jul 2013 #2
Or, as Steinbeck said, IrishAyes Jul 2013 #4
"you would have seen hundreds of Kuwaitis waving small American flags,'" think Jul 2013 #3
K & R SunSeeker Jul 2013 #5
awesome Pretzel_Warrior Jul 2013 #6
K&R! sheshe2 Jul 2013 #7
The tea party crowds were bought and paid for Iliyah Jul 2013 #8
Not voting is the solution? Chico Man Jul 2013 #9
You don't want teabaggers to vote. That is the intent of that part. (nt) NYC_SKP Jul 2013 #12
Yes Chico Man Jul 2013 #13
blocking votes? Where is that being said? n/t Sheepshank Jul 2013 #17
This whole thread revolves around the idea Chico Man Jul 2013 #18
NO ONE was being denied the right to vote anywhere on this thread Sheepshank Jul 2013 #19
"Do us a favor and stop voting?" Chico Man Jul 2013 #20
can't you see the futility of your interpretation Sheepshank Jul 2013 #22
It's a trashy infographic Chico Man Jul 2013 #23
just as your argument isn't persuasive.....it's called an personal opinion n/t Sheepshank Jul 2013 #24
It was created to be shared on Facebook Chico Man Jul 2013 #25
They're fake patriots Jamaal510 Jul 2013 #10
And let's not forget cutting SNAP from the Farm Bill ladym55 Jul 2013 #16
That'd make one Hell of a bumper sticker! KansDem Jul 2013 #11
It's almost as if blind allegiance to a concept like patriotism . . . Major Hogwash Jul 2013 #14
K & R! Lady Freedom Returns Jul 2013 #15
Yep. Snowball is a patriot with a thumbdrive full of southern strategy. ucrdem Jul 2013 #21
Today is Bastille Day, July 14th!!! Major Hogwash Jul 2013 #26
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