Superb article on how the sheeple are kept in check by the mere mention of al-Qaeda

This is excellent and so true:

The reason is that McCain is not a dumb politician. Like both President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, he knows the visceral and emotional reaction he is able to arouse within many Americans the minute they hear the words "Al-Qaeda," words that McCain knows immediately tend to short-circuit any reasonable and rationale thinking.
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The idea is that by employing the term "al Qaeda," the minds of Americans will immediately be shifted to the 9/11 attacks and will subconsciously associate those attacks with killings in Iraq, enabling people to convince themselves that the death and destruction in Iraq is all because of "al Qaeda."
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In fact, one of the groups of Iraqi insurgents that has arisen after the U.S. invasion of Iraq is entitled "Al Qaeda in Iraq," which U.S. officials use to maximum propaganda effect in the hopes that their invasion of a country that never attacked the United States could become justified in the minds of the American people.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/hornberger03212008.html

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Superb article on how the sheeple are kept in check by the mere mention of al-Qaeda

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