Robert Parry: Beating Bush at 'Information War'

[reprehensor]

Beating Bush at 'Information War'

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The failure of the Clinton Democrats to fight for an honest record of the Cold War – and to expose George H.W. Bush’s complicity in wrongdoing – opened the door for George W. Bush to enter the White House in 2001. If key documents had been declassified about just a few scandals, such as the Iraqgate arming of Saddam Hussein and the Iran-Contra Affair, that door almost certainly would have been shut for good.

But Bill Clinton saw history as less important than, say, his health-care program, which he thought (naively) might garner some Republican support if he let the elder George Bush off the hook. So, the American people were left with a misleading Cold War history; Clinton never got his bipartisanship; and the way was cleared for a comeback by the Bushes and their neoconservative allies.

Indirectly, the decision to avoid any truth-commission-style accountability after “winning” the Cold War also contributed to the quagmire in Iraq, a budgetary ocean of red ink again at high tide, and a population that wallows more and more in myths and misinformation.

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[KoKo]

1. A long read but hope Every DU'er will check this article out or buy his

book. It's a hopeful article with lots of new info on the possibility of the truth about what we did in Iraq and Iran will be coming out sooner rather than later.

It's a good article to energize us Activists to keep the pressure on and not give up because it seems we aren't winning many battles.

Thanks for the post.

[tom_paine]

2. Parry is the last of a dying breed, and actual Investigative Journalist

someday...we will have to explain to our grandchildren just what that was.

[ixion]

3. the war over “information warfare”

this is equivalent to gaining control over who's framing the debate. This is the single most important reason why progressives have come up with the short end.

Take back the media.
Take back the debate.
Make logic rule once again.