"Pew: Nearly Fifty Percent of Americans Buy Into Neocon Mass Murder Campaign
Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
December 22, 2007
As the CIA should know and the Washington Post dutifully reports:
A recent decline in U.S. news coverage from Iraq coincides with improved public opinion about the war just as the 2008 presidential campaign heads to an early showdown, a study released on Wednesday said…
The falloff coincided with a 14 percentage point climb — from 34 to 48 percent — in the number of Americans who believe the military effort in Iraq is going either fairly or very well, according to Pew.
In other words, if we can believe Pew — and we know, after the Ron Paul polling experience, how these outfits work, that is to say less than reputably — nearly half of the polled Americans are blithering idiots with a defective view of reality. But then, of course, as they are proud to admit, the neocons create reality and we follow up, usually by way of the moron tube.
As for the CIA, mentioned above: the Washington Post was a favored son under Operation Mockingbird, the intelligence penetration and take-over of corporate media. There is no reason to believe, some sixty odd years later, anything has changed, as made manifestly apparent by the results of this bone-headed poll.
The study was published as other polling data has shown the Iraq war issue receding slightly as a voter issue in the presidential campaign, which will see its first contest in the Iowa caucuses on January 3.
“The people enjoying some respite from Iraq are probably now the candidates for president … because Americans appear to be less concerned with Iraq as an issue in the campaign than they were a few months ago,” Rosenstiel said.
Quite predictably, the “presidential candidates,” with the distinct exception of Ron Paul, don’t want to talk about Iraq and for an obvious reason: when one of them is appointed, the “war” in Iraq will continue. Adding the Iraq issue to the campaign mix simply makes for a whole lot of questions the selectees — again, with the exception of Ron Paul — are not interested in answering. So obviously, according to our rulers, who indeed control what is sent out over the telescreen, it is best to dial back on the Iraqi “news,” that is to say “news” reported from the Green Zone.
News coverage, particularly accounts of daily attacks, began declining as violence levels dropped in late summer and early autumn. Pew said Iraq news resurged in October but mainly because of the controversy surrounding the Blackwater security firm and its alleged role in the deaths of Iraqi civilians.
A later Pew analysis of November news stories found a renewed decline in volume and signs of a more promising tone as coverage focused on declining violence and the apparent success of Bush’s so-called troop “surge.”
“There are signs that November represented something of a turning point in coverage from Iraq. Whether it proves to be a temporary one will depend on the course of events,” the study said.
The violence precipitated — and indeed engineered — by the neocons in Iraq has not declined: it will continue unabated until the United States gets out of there. Earlier this year, the Pentagon itself admitted that violence in Iraq “jumped to another record high,” largely due to a “sectarian struggle for power,” according to Reuters. Reading the corporate media, one gets the idea that the Iraqis are responsible for all this unfortunate violence, it has nothing to do with the neocons or their “surge” to kill “al-Qaeda,” the cardboard boogieman that shows up conveniently when needed.
It is probably too much to expect these idiots — and people who passively get their “news” from a tube owned by the same corporations that make ba-zillions of dollars off attack helicopters and fighter jets are indeed idiots — to recall the Pentagon telling us they were “considering” (translation: they had already implemented) the “Salvador Option,” that is to say they organized and unleashed death squads against the Iraqi people. It was admitted that the Pentagon had deferred to the CIA on this because the agency has oodles of experience in this sort of psychopathic behavior — from orchestrating the murder of some 100,000 Guatemalans to enabling fascists and thugs in Indonesia to slaughter around a million people — and that’s only the tip of the serial murder iceberg.
John Pilger wrote last year:
The real news, which is not reported in the CNN “mainstream”, is that the Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq. This is the campaign of terror by death squads armed and trained by the US, which attack Sunnis and Shias alike. The goal is the incitement of a real civil war and the break-up of Iraq, the original war aim of Bush’s administration. The ministry of the interior in Baghdad, which is run by the CIA, directs the principal death squads. Their members are not exclusively Shia, as the myth goes. The most brutal are the Sunni-led Special Police Commandos, headed by former senior officers in Saddam’s Ba’ath Party. This unit was formed and trained by CIA “counter-insurgency” experts, including veterans of the CIA’s terror operations in central America in the 1980s, notably El Salvador.
And don’t expect the U.S. to leave Iraq until the mission to break it up, with plenty of attendant murder and misery, is complete, no matter who is in office, that is with the exception of Ron Paul. In the meantime, it makes sense for the “war” to disappear from America’s telescreens just as the funny season — when presidential selectees read from prepared scripts and supposedly attack each other — unfolds and sickeningly dominates the supposedly public owned airwaves.
Our only hope to end the carnage lies with the election of Ron Paul, the only candidate talking about ending the “war” (occupation) and bringing the troops home. But as investigative reporter Daniel Estulin told Alex Jones recently, if the neocons have their way Dr. Paul will be taken out of the picture, as he upsets the neocon mass murder apple cart. “I am getting information from my sources that there are people involved from a higher level of the American establishment who are seriously considering — this has not been confirmed — but assassination is definitely on the agenda and I pray to God that this is not the case,” said Estulin.
Paul Joseph Watson wrote for Prison Planet on Friday:
In a June appearance on The Alex Jones Show, Congressman Paul acknowledged that such a threat is “real,” agreeing with a number of historical examples where leaders were killed or attacked for successfully standing up to the system. “That’s right. They’ll do it,” Paul said, making reference with Alex Jones to upstarts like Andrew Jackson, “The Kingfish” Huey Long, Bobby Kennedy, George Washington and even George Wallace.
As should be obvious by now, the neocons will not allow anybody or anything — from Ron Paul to investigative television reportage — to get in the way of the plan to “domesticate” the Muslim world.
If we are to believe Pew, nearly 50 percent of Americans buy into this agenda as well, although of course we cannot expect the average American to understand the real process behind the “war” in Iraq anymore than we can expect a six year old to understand quantum physics."
