Pentagon Enlists Half-Billion-Dollar P.R. Apparatus to Sell Afghanistan War

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General Petraeus' media blitz is only the tip of the iceberg in the Pentagon's effort to sell war to the American people. The Defense Department has a budget of more than $500 million for public relations efforts directed at U.S. citizens, a slice of a much larger information operations effort to influence public opinion. But no matter how much they spend on P.R. and information operations, the facts on the ground show that the Afghanistan War isn't making us safer, and it's not worth the costs.

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[jcdinform]

Solders are NOT Heroes,... they are Corporation paid killers. - Where ever there are freedom loving people resisting the American Empire, New World order agenda of Corporation take over & control, the Killers are sent in to murder the innocents. - Read the book "War is a Racket" by General Smedly Butler. - just because an Enlisted person Imagines he is doing Good, does not make him a Hero.

[Nashee Gorang]

Just nuke those fuckers deploy mini nukes in the mountains. just burn the cunts out i am so fucking angry i want then burned and their skin torn while they scream Fuck them. Bastards. I swear They dont want me their I will not be able to return to civilisation army will have to cage me. or kill me atleast i will have done something good for once in my life. If you are a Coalition Soldier thanks to you. Your far more peoples Heroes & More loved. Than not.

[IRIQUOIS227]

THESE WARS ARE ALREADY LOST. THE PRIMA DONNA PATRAEUS SHOULD BE FRAGGED. SHOT GRAVEYARD DEAD. I hope we can clean up the "US history apparatus" to the point where garbage like Patraeus, Mullings, and good ole Stan can be shown for the idiots they are.

[ASimpleEquation]

It's because they could care less about the "troops". They look at them as just pawns in the game. Watch the documentary 'Iraq for Sale" on Google video.

"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State and Nobel "Peace" Prize recipient. Also, check out the book "Pawns in the Game" by William Guy Carr on scribd dot com. The TRUTH is out there. Peace. =)

[rriverstone1]

They spend so much on PR for Afghan war, why can't they spend some for healing & support of returning vets or rebuilding Afghan infrastructure?

[alchemistoxford]

This is appallingly Orwellian.  The Pentagon has become a propaganda agency of mammoth proportions. Congratulations to rethinkingafghanistan

[Peter S. López]

We should utilize social media to combat the Pentagon in the propaganda wars. We should remember that propaganda ~issuing an abundance of information~ can be used by all of us. Fight Back against Amerikan Fascism-Imperialism. ~Che Peta

[Rizky06]

What do the Afghanistinians think we are still there for?

Mineral rights including precious metals, Caspian Oil Pipeline, Opium Fields??

[Todd Boyle]

Everybody please join the yahoo group "counter-recruitment" where hundreds of people have been reading and posting for the past 10 years about stopping the omissions, misrepresentations, and unethical methods of military recruiters. There are 20,000 high schools in the US --so get working!!!

[kroovyandcal]

the 27,000 hired for PR should go to afghanistan and replace our troops there