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How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words

"We develop a core group from within our media analyst list of those that we can count on to carry our water. They become the key go to guys for the networks and it begins to weed out the less reliably friendly analysts by the networks themselves."
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:47 PM

    quickstrategy

    But there are also people who actually believe all this stuff, have insane ideas they want to turn into realities, and/or have deep contempt for the citizens they allegedly serve

    I'm former military too, a Vietnam era draftee who never went to Nam.

    It's my sober opinion that the people you describe in the sentence above are the majority in today's military. I've been talking (or trying anyway) to vets I know and none of them want to talk about the disaster in Iraq.. And I haven't talked to one yet that had any strong objection to going on to Iran..

    They have drunk deeply of the neocon koolaid, every single one.

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