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To: pickrell
Excellent post. I hesitate to speculate in public forums like this one for fear of coming too close to the mark and giving the wrong people ideas that might help them in their evil plans, and I'm just a humble civilian. I just posted the following in another thread about the port flap...

When my liberal friend says "Bush lied", my response to him is "Well I da*n well hope so!". We are at war after all, and to quote Churchill, "The first casualty of war is the truth". Somebody also said that the most effective lie is one that contains 90% truth. I really believe that a lot of the "news" as fed to and reported on by the antique media has that 10% fudge factor built into it. When I see something that just doesn't make a lot of sense on the surface of it, I'm inclined to think that, there must be "the rest of the story" that we, the civilian population are not privy to that sets the picture right.

I think that a lot of seemingly questionable decisions of the administration might resolve favorably if the back stories were known, perhaps 50 years from now we will get some huge surprises.
14 posted on 02/21/2006 10:08:33 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: ADemocratNoMore; tonycavanagh
"..I hesitate to speculate in public forums like this one for fear of coming too close to the mark and giving the wrong people ideas that might help them in their evil plans,.."

I know exactly what you mean. I nearly didn't post this at all, as I have refrained in quite a few other cases. But then, I have to look myself in the eye and say, "we at Freepertown aren't exactly retired army generals, stuck in front of the network cameras on the eve of the 1991 invasion to free Kuwait, and openly speculating on precisely where the spearheads will attack, and when." One can only hope that those persons don't blunder...

We are safely lost in the grass, immersed in the white noise of network chicks who, in their twenties, with decades of military experience, point out what the Marines are doing wrong. I fear, however, that Rush is in a unique category which gets noticed bigtime.

He would gladly, if I am any judge, participate in an artistically crafted campaign of disinformation if he thought it would misdirect the enemies of our country. But sometimes in the heat of another controversy, such as over our ports, I fear that undue attention may be called to areas that maybe are best left alone.

Fortunately, I am probably wrong, and only a few hundred reads will notice! And they are invariably the most loyal Americans. Americans who deserve to believe that our intelligence professionals come up with great intelligence... which is then compartmented, Gorelicked, and buried as unhelpful politically. Sorry- that was the last administration...

19 posted on 02/22/2006 6:13:08 AM PST by pickrell (Old dog, new trick...sort of)
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