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Propaganda Redux The left is abetting America's enemies..
Opinion Journal.com ^ | August 7, 2007 | ION MIHAI PACEPA

Posted on 08/07/2007 6:40:55 AM PDT by KeyLargo

Propaganda Redux Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush.

BY ION MIHAI PACEPA Tuesday, August 7, 2007 12:01 a.m.

During last week's two-day summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown thanked President Bush for leading the global war on terror. Mr. Brown acknowledged "the debt the world owes to the U.S. for its leadership in this fight against international terrorism" and vowed to follow Winston Churchill's lead and make Britain's ties with America even stronger.

Mr. Brown's statements elicited anger from many of Mr. Bush's domestic detractors, who claim the president concocted the war on terror for personal gain. But as someone who escaped from communist Romania--with two death sentences on his head--in order to become a citizen of this great country, I have a hard time understanding why some of our top political leaders can dare in a time of war to call our commander in chief a "liar," a "deceiver" and a "fraud."

I spent decades scrutinizing the U.S. from Europe, and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America's own respect for its president.

My father spent most of his life working for General Motors in Romania and had a picture of President Truman in our house in Bucharest. While "America" was a vague place somewhere thousands of miles away, he was her tangible symbol. For us, it was he who had helped save civilization from the Nazi barbarians, and it was he who helped restore our freedom after the war--if only for a brief while. We learned that America loved Truman, and we loved America. It was as simple as that.

Later, when I headed Romania's intelligence....

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 08/07/2007 6:40:56 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo
During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.

Gee, this sounds rather exactly like the testimony one John Kerry (I served in Vietnam) gave before Congress.

2 posted on 08/07/2007 6:47:39 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("You ask, 'What is our aim?' I can answer in one word: VICTORY - victory - at all costs...")
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To: ReleaseTheHounds; ASA Vet; BIGLOOK; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ALOHA RONNIE; NormsRevenge; george76; ...
During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.

Gee, this sounds rather exactly like the testimony one John Kerry (I served in Vietnam) gave before Congress.

Sometimes only the faces change:

These elite liberal hatriotics had better pray that Iraq doesn't become a rich and free standing nation. A rich and free Iraq might hire a lot of mercs to capture and bring these war criminals to trial in Iraq for War Crimes against innocent Iraqis.

3 posted on 08/07/2007 7:42:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Support Free Republic with donations, That is the conservative way. No Freeploading!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Kerry’s testimony:

“crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command....

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.”


4 posted on 08/07/2007 7:46:27 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: MrB; ASA Vet; BIGLOOK

Kerry and his Mentor, Kennedy apparently were well schooled in mouthing the communist lies about our warriors in Nam.


5 posted on 08/07/2007 7:49:25 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Support Free Republic with donations, That is the conservative way. No Freeploading!)
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"Hello, Lieutenant? This is Detective Sousa...we have a 'John F'n Kerry' here who claims he was working in his office when suddenly a woman with tremendous CANKLES rushed out of the shadows, slapped him silly, and dropped a note saying 'stay away in 2008'".

"Yes, Sir, we have called his wife, she will come take him home..."


6 posted on 08/07/2007 8:05:31 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: KeyLargo

The left’s rules:

Anti-Americanism trumps all else.

There are no enemies on the left.

Truth is whatever serves the party.

if you repeat a lie often enough, it’s true.


7 posted on 08/07/2007 8:07:31 AM PDT by TBP
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To: george76

Good thing that Cankles slapped fnnng Kerry and didn’t kick him.


8 posted on 08/07/2007 8:48:36 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Support Free Republic with donations, That is the conservative way. No Freeploading!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Here's the fearless Vietnam warrior.


9 posted on 08/07/2007 8:52:12 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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Good thing that Cankles slapped fnnng Kerry and didn’t kick him.

He's lucky she didn't hit him with her brush.


10 posted on 08/07/2007 8:53:56 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: ASA Vet

Or with her cleavage.:)


11 posted on 08/07/2007 8:57:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Support Free Republic with donations, That is the conservative way. No Freeploading!)
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To: MrB

Genghis John the Khan Kerry, Soviet Propaganda Mouthpiece

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COPY THESE. (Please don't link, though, they use my bandwidth. Download the image to your computer, and upload to your blog or Web site.)
12 posted on 08/07/2007 12:18:25 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: 2ndClassCitizen; 3D-JOY; AConservativeRealist; ALlRightAllTheTime; Angelwood; Apple Blossom; ...

This article is one of the best articles about the left’s ties with worldwide communist/socialist agitation that I have read, especially because it is written by a former KGB agent who has seen “both sides now.”

It has been posted 3 times on FR, yet has received a total of only 765 views and 19 comments. It should have been read, downloaded, saved and widely emailed by everyone on FR.

You won’t regret making the time to read the whole thing (at the link).


13 posted on 08/09/2007 1:30:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ( “A nation without borders is not a nation.” —Ronald Reagan)
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I suggest that we spread the word via our personal address lists. Those of us at FR know what’s going on; many of our friends and associates do not. Since the MSM won’t print or tell the truth, it is up to us.


14 posted on 08/09/2007 1:41:11 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead
I suggest that we spread the word via our personal address lists. Those of us at FR know what’s going on; many of our friends and associates do not. Since the MSM won’t print or tell the truth, it is up to us.

Extremely well said.

15 posted on 08/09/2007 1:52:15 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ( “A nation without borders is not a nation.” —Ronald Reagan)
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To: KeyLargo

Speaking of which...

Pakistani Official Answers Obama— Calls For Jihad
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/08/pakistani-official-answers-obama-calls.html


16 posted on 08/09/2007 2:16:20 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Eternal Rest grant unto Donna and let perpetual light shine upon her, rest in peace.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Albion ... if you REALLY want this thread and the Pacepa article to be read, ask the moderator to rewrite the headline to something like “Anna Nicole Smith and Propaganda Redux .......”


17 posted on 08/09/2007 2:17:43 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
YEP.

"Hanoi-john" was/IS garbage in SEMI-human form. he always was.

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18 posted on 08/09/2007 2:20:53 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: TBP
YEP!

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19 posted on 08/09/2007 2:22:16 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Albion Wilde

It should be sent to the 202 House Gop Reps to use in their campaigns and to the 49 Gop Senators. It is time to show the public that our real enemies are not other Pubs but DemQuislingsocialistpacifists!


20 posted on 08/09/2007 3:00:02 PM PDT by phillyfanatic
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