Speaking of Propaganda and war

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6. Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis

Different Bush war criminal and different set of lies, but the principle seems to be the same. No Independent Thought. I wonder if the absurdity of the claim (if you question the ridiculous, transparent lies of the elites, you're a Nazi) suggests fear the system of enforced blindness is weakening. Or maybe the system is so strong, the elites feel they can say anything, no matter how distant from reality. Let's hope it's the former.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laurence-silberman-bush-lied-nazis

Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis
ByBRENDAN JAMESPublishedFEBRUARY 9, 2015, 10:40 AM EST

A federal appeals judge wrote in a column published on Sunday that people who accuse former President George W. Bush of lying about the Iraq War are peddling myths like those that led to the rise of Hitler.

Laurence H. Silberman, a federal appellate judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the idea the Bush administration "lied us into Iraq" has gone from "antiwar slogan to journalistic fact."

"t is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised," he wrote. "It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam."

After re-litigating the case for invading Iraq, Silberman wrote that the charge could have "potentially dire consequences."

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