Saturday, October 01, 2005

ANTI-WAR FRAMING: Talk about REAL REASONS for Iraq war and FAILURE

in even those terms.

If you move that to the top of the list, essentially answering Cindy Sheehan's question, "What noble cause?" you effectively do two a couple of things:
  • You make the lies about the causes look that much more embarrassing and hollow

  • You show that they have failed at even their own agenda

  • Once you have shown that it isn't really a kill or be killed issue, you have freed people to consider other options to address the problems driving the war

  • Most importantly, you have innoculated the public against the propaganda for the next war.

You can get the real goal down to a sentence: As the world's oil supply begins to decline, they wanted to make sure American companies control the spigot.
Timeline of Oil Meetings on Iraq

Businessmen do things to make money. Iraq has trillions of dollars worth of oil, but they aren't even pumping as much as they did before the war, so they failed to even effectively steal oil.

Then shut up. Don't talk about Mumia, the Dalai Lama, WMD, or even Osama.

Change the terms of the debate to put them on the defensive.



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