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... they aren't very creative. The means used by them to con the public into supporting the war in Iraq (and for that matter, bombing civilians in Afghanistan) are exactly the same tactics as was used by Hitler and his people as learned from the proponents of modern advertising. More sophisticated today, surely, and immensely aided by the inherent power of television, but no different--big lies are more believable than small ones and are more likely to be believed if repeated over and over.
Every piece of legislation proposed by them, right down to the way they use titles, is a variant on the old "bait and switch" routine, which is as old as the hills.
Not long after the invasion, a significant number of people believed that Hussein helped the 9/11 attackers, that some of the hijackers were from Iraq, that there were associations between al-Qaeda and Hussein. There was no proof for any of this, but people believed it, nevertheless. Why? Because the Bushies put 9/11 and Hussein together in every paragraph they wrote and every sentence they uttered, and did so for months. That's an ancient trick--more commonly known as guilt by association. From the time that motion pictures were created, juxtaposition became a common technique--create an association between two disparate things by splicing them together.
I think you'll find that, reduced to the essentials, every tactic used by the neo-cons is an old trick. Why? Because people are still gullible, and still trust their government. If they weren't, the old tricks wouldn't work. :)
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