James Woolsey stated on 02 April 2003 at a speech at UCLA that the war on Iraq is the opening of a much-to-be-desired "Fourth World War" and that the governments of Iran and Syria are "America's enemies" in this war. Woolsey stated that "We are fighting "World War IV, a war that will last longer than World Wars I or II. As we move toward a new Middle East," Woolsey said, "we will make a lot of people very nervous."


Including James Madison, who wrote:

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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war...and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
-- James Madison
(Sounds like he was talking about Halliburton, doesn't it? That's why I think those founding fathers were geniuses!)

On the propaganda front:

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Jessica Lynch Laments Military Portrayal

By ALLISON BARKER, Associated Press Writer

PALESTINE, W.Va. - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch accused the military of using her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue to sway public support for the war in Iraq.

Dramatic video of U.S. commandos whisking the former Army supply clerk from a Nasiriyah hospital to a waiting chopper April 1 helped cement Lynch's image as a hero. But the 20-year-old private told ABC's Diane Sawyer there was no reason for her rescue to be filmed.

"They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," Lynch told Sawyer in a "Primetime" interview to air Tuesday. "It's wrong." ..
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I just saw the Diane Sawyer Special. Nice job of recounting the propaganda of Jessica fighting Rambo-like perpetuated by the military and carried by the Washington Post and FOX News. With no corrections ever made. Pass the lie and repeat it until it's the truth.

Jessica Lynch is more heroic than I could ever have imagined for getting up and setting the record straight despite the fact that she simply could have lied and cashed in like that loathsome Iraqi lawyer Muhammed Odeh al-Rehaief, responsible for the accounts behind that Jessica Lynch TV movie. And no one would have ever been the wiser. Of course now he's on the fast track to wealth and citizenship for helping the propaganda machine with a book deal with Rupert (FOX) Murdoch's Harper Collin's book company. [no no no]

Muhammed Odeh al-Rehaief's neocon beloved account disputed by not only both the Iraqi doctors and hospital staff but by Jessica Lynch herself tonight on TV. How you people can still defend FOX and the propaganda machine is proof of the power of delusion and blind faith.