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It is absolutely stunning the ability of the authoritarian right to tout the "great presidency" of GW Bush in face of facts. It could only be one of two things: 1) authoritarian worship, or 2) a simple lack of knowledge and information.

In wading through one of the transcripts in the Pentagon’s document dump referenced here, I came across an intriguing passage.

Since the New York Times revealed the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign and use of “surrogates and message-force multipliers” to sprinkle fairy dust on our failed Iraq misadventure, we’ve been learning a lot about the astonishing breadth and depth of this misinformation campaign.

So what? The fact is that it is likely an illegal Pentagon-constructed psychological operation aimed at the American people to sell a government policy through lies in the media.

So what? The fact is that it is likely an illegal Pentagon-constructed psychological operation aimed at the American people to sell a government policy through lies in the media.
The NYT exposed the first details of the Pentagon’s Military Analyst Program and now there are calls for a Congressional investigation. So, [...]

Last week I said essentially the same thing as MSNBC military analyst Jack Jacobs says now: