How the PR firm - The Rendon Group - sold the war for the neo-cons...

[Postman]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1132271793151&has-player=true

"Al-Haideri, in fact, was the product of a clandestine operation -- part espionage, part PR campaign -- that had been set up and funded by the CIA and the Pentagon for the express purpose of selling the world a war. And the man who had long been in charge of the marketing was a secretive and mysterious creature of the Washington establishment named John Rendon."

also, notice how "journalists" are employees of a public relations (i.e. propaganda) agency.

snip:

It is a belief John Rendon encapsulated in a speech to cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1996. "I am not a national-security strategist or a military tactician," he declared. "I am a politician, a person who uses communication to meet public-policy or corporate-policy objectives.

[stillcool]

1. excellent article....

i read it earlier, but it's one i can read again, and again. Thanks for the reminder.

[bananas]

2. Always planning ahead

"We lost control of the context," Rendon warned. "That has to be fixed for the next war."

[boston bean]

3. It really ticks me off

that something as important as war is marketed. What a world.

[Postman]

4. its not "war" that is marketed, it's "news" that is manipulated or simply

made up.