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Um, maybe I've naive when it comes to politics, but what leader hasn't used propaganda to sell a war?!?
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*insert sarcasm* The Great Messiah would never stoop to using propaganda, he'll just bore our adversaries with stories of his great-uncle's liberation of Auschwitz and how there are 57 states in the Union. :roll: :roll:
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yeah cause movies are sooo boring who even likes them anymore, Id much rather read news articles about the same old bullshit day after day thats way more fun.. :roll:
hey OldPhil if you dont like what people talk about here why dont you even bother coming here? No one is saying you have to read any of it.
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It's not like it effects Canadians.
Canadian Soldiers in Fight in Iraq
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Yeah you got me LizardKid.
Nice try, I happen to make "movies" for a living. If you would like to sit down and discuss the importance of Eisenstein and his use of montage or any other film topics drop me a line.
For the record Iron Man sucked. Gweneth Paltrow came off as functionally retarded and Iron man was on screen for like ten minutes. Indiana Jones was a piece of garbage. I hope Batman is better then that last cliche piece of crap they put out. (Hey, lets add Ninjas and Qui Gon Jin. That'll really spice thing up!) I have high hopes for the Hulk but I'll have to be high to sit through another "epic" battle on the city streets just like every other super hero movie ever made.
As for the article I posted it was the biggest story in the world yesterday. It is not the same old liberal stuff. This is a loyal Texas White House insider admitting the administration has committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors. He will be called before Congress to testify leading to the eventual conviction and imprisonment of the President of the United States.
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Actually, I think the consensus opinion these days is that Bush is incompetent and habitually mendacious, but has only six months remaining in his term. Nobody, with the exception of a few diehards of questionable cognitive capacity, is under the illusion that history will lionize him. And nobody is under the illusion that the sudden revelation that (gasp!) he lied will cause American troops to be withdrawn from Iraq before November.
So, nobody is ready to jump up and applaud Scott McClellan's courage in sticking a silver-plated dinner fork in his back after he was done.
Might as well talk movies; McClellan should have published this book in 2004, when it mattered.
And that's Afghanistan, not Iraq.
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I agree that propaganda has always been used to sell war to the people. However it is illegal for the United States government to propagandize it's own citizens. Foreigners are O.K. but not here in the good old U.S. of A..
In this case it has been proven that the Bush administration had drawn up the invasion plans before they even entered the White House. They used their control of the media to place highly ranked military officials on T.V to spread lies. They then used corrupt journalists to place fabricated intelligence in the public record and then sighted the reports as facts. They went before the U.N. and presented the same false information as a cause for war. Bush pulled the weapons inspectors and disregarded the conclusion that no WMD existed. They then launched a series of false terror threats against the public in order to scare the population and keep them operating from a place of perpetual fear. The acts of Treason and violations of international law have now been confirmed by the the very White House press Secretary who helped spread the propaganda. That's big news. I'm sorry about the angry tone of my first response.
As to the video. I thought it might be Afghanistan but my research showed that "According to Chris Wattie, writing in the "National Post" November 28, 2003, "...about 30 Canadian exchange officers participated in the invasion of Iraq."
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cratch: nice try? you're a tool, who cares what you do for a living thats got nothing to do with what I said..your whining about what alot people here are talking about yet you still come here, thats the point....dont come here if you dont like whats being said its simple. Sorry if alot of us arent intellectually stimulating enough for you, maybe you should go somewhere where your interests would be more appreciated.
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Captain Obvious here. Sorry about that . I thought it might be worth mentioning the whole illegal war thing. It seems it's not such a big deal after all . Sorry to trouble y'all with the truth. Please feel free to reinsert your heads back up your collective asses and continue your discussions of shitty comic book movies.
