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DEAR PROGRESSIVES, Should I Change my Name to "GENERAL" in Order to Be Elected President???

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Finally, I want more scholarships for hardworking students, and I want cheaper higher education for all. I want good schools and better learning everywhere-but not by simply making tests and praying they bring about change and accountability.

 

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CHANGING MY NAME TO "GENERAL"???

 

I was listening to Tuesday's Democracy Now's (DN) review of the Pentagon's puppetry scandals at CNN and other TV news sources over the past 6 years.

 

That is, the Pentagon and Bush-Cheney White House purposefully had talking points written up for dozens and dozens of former generals and officers to spend 2002 and early 2003 drumming a Goebbles-style march of America into war in Iraq.

 

This report was noted in a New York Times article last Sunday, but DN and FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) have reported this fact for years.

 

The strategy of the White House and Pentagon was simple: (1) Make war on Afghanistan and (2) hint loudly that the news stations needed to have more weapons and war experts on call to narrate present and future battles and wars!!!

 

This vicious circle has continued in this way: (3) These same paid former generals and other military types encouraged the country to go to war, or they directly dazzled viewers with war images while those pundits spoke.

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KEVIN STODA-has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.--He sees himself as a peace educator and have been-- a promoter of good economic and social development--making-him an enemy of my homelands humongous DEFENSE SPENDING and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global (more...)
 

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