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Propaganda? Terrorism is the least of our worries. • "...the lifetime chance of an American being killed by international terrorism is about one in 80,000 -- about the same chance of being killed by a comet or a meteor." --John Mueller, Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006 Despite this fact, the Bush Administration has done everything it can to keep Americans running scared. It is not a new tactic, but it is a tried-and-true tactic. "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."--General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Supreme Allied Commander, 1957 I'll admit it; I'm scared-but not of terrorists. I am afraid of what the Bush Administration and the Republicans will do to win the election in November. I am convinced that something is going to happen to stampede the voters into the Republican fold--the October surprise. When it happens, we must stand firm. • "We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular." --Edward R. Murrow (1908-65), American news anchor, broadcast journalist • "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." --Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd US President In this case, the job at hand is to remain calm-no matter what happens before election day. Then, march to the polls in record numbers and change the course of America. 
 Capitol Hill Blue is a not-for-profit, non-commercial experiment in on-line journalism published as an information resource for our readers. All material is © 2006 Capitol Hill Blue. For more information, please check out our FAQ. We take your privacy seriously at Capitol Hill Blue. Bush's propaganda war ignores reality of failed Iraq policy
September 3, 2006 05:21 AM |
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Comments Although military professionals tell him Iraq has descended into irreversible civil war, President George W. Bush Saturday kept up his pre-election offensive fantasy on Iraq, claiming things are going far better than the facts demonstrate in the war-ravaged nation.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Scheduled to be aired on September
10 and 11, ABC's "docudrama" about the Sept. 11 attacks has come under
severe criticism by terrorism experts and a member of the 9-11 commission.
Many reports have shown that the miniseries is ripe with conservative
propaganda, largely ignores Bush administration failures and misrepresents
Clinton's counterterrorism policies, such as in made-up scenes depicting
Clinton officials as undermining attempts to kill Osama bin Laden.
In another telling example, the series claims that the Washington Post
ruined a valuable form of surveillance of bin Laden by disclosing that the
U.S. was monitoring his cell phone calls, an accusation actually made by a
different paper, the conservative Washington Times.
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professionals, offers extended news coverage of this hot topic.
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