Too bad, so sad.

[Mark Thibodeau]

I imagine Joseph might be referring to the role played by such august
journals as the New York Times in getting a critical mass of the American
population to switch from opposing to supporting the US invasion of Iraq in
2003, a folly which has led to the unnecessary, superfluous deaths of
upwards of a million innocent souls so far, and counting.

I don't, however, blame "mainstream American journalism" any more than I do
the populace that allowed itself to be persuaded. And of course, much less
than the actual criminals at the top, many of whom knew that the rationale
they proffered for their businessman's war* of first resort was nothing but
a tissue of lies, because they knew that if they revealed their REAL
reasons for the invasion (which, to be exceedingly fair, I'm sure they
thought were good reasons), the American people wouldn't be so gung-ho for
bloodshed.

J

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joseph T:
> "I agree that mainstream american journalism is complicit in much more
> mass murder than any good they may have done."
>
> A remark so ignorant, even, maybe, so inherently vile in even pretending
> this makes measurable sense about valid journalism, that one shudders for
> the polity from the other side.
>
> So it goes.
>
>
>
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