A Truth Squad for John McCain

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A Truth Squad for John McCain

By Norman Markowitz

I recently showed parts of Eugene Jarecki’s brilliant documentary, Why We Fight, in my summer class on the history of imperialism. The documentary, a critique of US foreign policy and the Military Industrial Complex it serves, centers on the organized lying, propaganda, and White House-directed subversion even of military intelligence and the CIA, that produced the Iraq invasion and occupation. It should be required viewing for Americans, although it would give them a different picture of John McCain, one of its “talking heads,” than the one his handlers are pushing today.

The great strength of the documentary is its use of government figures, including neo-conservatives, to in effect indict the either directly or indirectly US policy. In that sense it is more effective as an educational tool than Michael Moore’s far more entertaining Fahrenheit 9/11.

Here the most trenchant critiques, some frankly in an anti-US policy sense to the left of positions that I would take, come from retired intelligence officers, former CIA agents, former employees of the military industrial complex who have come to the conclusion that it is a vast and corrupt machine whose purpose is to amass a limitless amount of wealth and power, whatever the consequences may be for the American people and the people of the world

But John McCain is in this documentary. And, while he is hardly a “defector” from Military Industrial Complex, he sounds like a critic of US foreign policy.

Was John McCain a “flip flopper” in the 2006 documentary from the militant pro-Iraq invasion positions he took earlier or from his “surge” cheerleading today? Was John McCain then fantasizing that he was Dwight Eisenhower, who emerges as a very positive figure in the Why We Fight documentary in 2006, or is he fantasizing that he is a cross between General George Patton and George W. Bush today? Is he having an identity crisis?

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7243/

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1. Coincidentally I just posted a video...

...using the McCain clip from this Documentary.

An interesting sidenote is the reaction McCain had to the film... he blew a gasket because he did not like to be made out to look like he didn't like Cheney.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/john-mccains-anger-fur_b_15288.html

(EDIT: gratuitous link to my video:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=168675&mesg_id=168675)

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2. Self Centered Egotist led to run by Wealthy Beer Lady not Happy at being Rich

Wants Station through Marriage...ie being wife of somebody...like the WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT...Hello....

McClone is not happy and his body language shows it...his blink rate and delivery are signs of insincerety....he really doesn't believe half the shit he shoveling

neverthe less he plows on...prayin for miricles....using kitchen sinks an shit....

In the END...TRUTH will shine Through...so will Reality and Sanity....The Deadly Trio of the GOPs List.....