[brad]

'While agents spread these lies, thugs would be paid to launch staged attacks on religious leaders and make it appear they were ordered to do so by the prime minister and his supporters.'

this is it in a nutshell. false flag operations (gulf of tonkin was a totally fabricated incident, btw, it is now admitted by NSA) are the order of the day. you see these a lot with the israelis because israel is not strong in the region (eg, cannot just invade iraq and take over) , there is a lot of internal dissent (and thus need to control public opinion), etc.

what we're seeing is the psychological maturation of the propaganda process. vietnam was started with a false flag operation (gulf of tonkin), but the propaganda process was almost completely unrealized afterwards.

but now all that is changed. the propaganda infrastructure is in place.

take the iraq 'war'.

how many people know that the iraqi military (and almost certainly saddam himself, but that is not confirmed; the iraqi military is confirmed) was paid off to stand down,thus no resistance . (there was local 'militia' resistance, given that the iraqis are tough culturally and citizens/subjects whatever there could easily buy automatic weapons for personal use , etc.) but the US administration itself admitted the iraqi army generals were all bought off to stand down.

or the blatant doublethink of 'wmd' 'not really ever had been of really any importance', etc., when go back a few months and its the opposite, and how people can simultaneously hold both these beliefs, or even worse through manipulation a good chunk of people think 'wmd' have *already* been found.

anyway, forget about that anyway, enough about these mystical 'wmd' crap. we've got important stuff to discuss ahead. i hear n. korea has nukes and is an imminent threat to the US western coast.