Basically most everyone grows up believing that he or she is growing up in the best, most free country in the world, when talking in terms of being an American. We live in a democracy, where we're free and we help make decisions in our government in order to lead our country. Lately, mostly after 9/11 gray areas started to appear in regards of our so called freedom. It probably has been going on all along but most of us were too young to realize it before.
Anyway the contradiction I found in regards to it not truely being a hundred percent honest and pure, has to due specifically with the Pentagon and how they hired a reported 75 retired officers to pretend to be military analysts in order to create a favorable spin on the conditions in the war with Iraq. "The so-called analysts, were given classified Pentagon briefings, provided with Pentagon-approved talking points and given free trips to Iraq and other sites paid for by the Pentagon. Their involvement was ultimately approved by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Retired Green Beret Robert Bevelacqua, a former Fox News analyst, said, “It was [the Pentagon] saying, ‘We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you’” (DemocracyNow!.com).
Essentially this situation like so many other situations keep being revealed to the American public that we are blantanly being lied to like little children because they want us to falsly back a war. It seems ridiculous and makes me angry that things like this are going on. It is not democracy to pay people to lie to the public, it is cowardice.
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