The Way We Make Anti-War

by digby

I suspect that this article about the administration’s propaganda campaign will get wide circulation. It connects many of the dots we’ve all been following the blogosphere for years, from the OSI to the Iraq Group and beyond. I urge you to read it.

I first wrote back in March of 2004 about Sam Gardiner’s work cataloging 50 false stories that he believed had been planted in the press by the administration. By this time the number of examples are legion.

This is a conscious, concerted effort on the part of the administration. But it is important to remember that this goes back to Rumsfeld’s (and Newtie’s) Toffler-inspired vision of 21st century Information Warfare:

The target of information warfare, then, is the human mind, especially those minds that make the key decisions of war or peace and, from the military perspective, those minds that make the key decisions on if, when, and how to employ the assets and capabilities embedded in their strategic structures.

… or as the Toffler’s put it:

“The way we make war reflects the way we make wealth and the way we make anti-war must reflect the way we make war.”

Do we still have any doubts about why this Iraq operation has been a complete cock-up?

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