Counter-spin

... or when Madison Avenue meets American politics.

The entire Iraq effort is seemingly a gigantic exercise in 'spin'... or the Art of Lying While Avoiding Being Dragged Into Court.

Lets examine a few elements of the current Neo-conservative agenda and it's attending propaganda.

To avoid being tagged as someone who is unpatriotic, the right wing would have us believe that we must 'support the mission' in Iraq without questioning the awesome wisdom of the Oval Office (ignore the man behind the curtain, listen to the Wizard of Oz).

The challenge is to accurately define 'the mission' in terms that justify the destruction of the American military and the draining of the American economy. In other words what can the military do, that is within their defined roles in our society, to 'Win in Iraq'? Secondary question is what has the current Administration, including the Commander in Chief (when did he stop being the President of the United States) done to make a military solution possible (if it is possible)?

The attacks of the far Right also invokes the mantra of 'embolden the enemy' as a knee-jerk reply to silence any questioning or dissent of anyone who questions what is going on in Iraq, or Afghanistan for that matter (roughly 70% of the American population). So here's the second challenge: Properly define the 'enemy' as a valid military force, that can be readily identified and neutralized without collateral damage, and define precisely who the enemy is, by demonstrating with verifiable documention (or at least credible sources) what proportion of the Iraqi population is the 'enemy' (please bear in mind that if more than 50% of the Iraqi population is the 'enemy' then America IS an occupying aggressor). Should be fairly simple, if what we've recieved from the White House and Department of Defense is accurate, reliable and... here's the hard part... logical.