How the Pentagon Covers Up the Truth About Its War Atrocities

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/pentagons-latest-mission-accomplished-moment-misremembering-americas-wars-2003



It’s 2053 — 20 years since you needed a computer, tablet, or smart phone to go online. At least, that’s true in the developed world: you know, China, India, Brazil, and even some parts of the United States. Cybernetic eye implants allow you to see everything with a digital overlay. And once facial recognition software was linked to high-speed records searches, you had the lowdown on every person standing around you. Of course, in polite society you still introduce yourself as if you don’t instantly know another person’s net worth, arrest record, and Amazooglebook search history. (Yes, the fading old-tech firms Amazon, Google, and Facebook merged in 2033.) You also get a tax break these days if you log into one of the government’s immersive propaganda portals. (Nope, “propaganda” doesn’t have negative connotations anymore.) So you choose the Iraq War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Experience and take a stroll through the virtual interactive timeline.

Look to your right, and you see happy Iraqis pulling down Saddam’s statue and showering U.S. Marines with flowers and candy. Was that exactly how it happened? Who really remembers? Now, you’re walking on the flight deck of what they used to call an aircraft carrier behind a flight-suit-clad President George W. Bush. He turns and shoots you a thumbs-up under a “ mission accomplished” banner. A voice beamed into your head says that Bush proclaimed victory that day, but that for years afterward, valiant U.S. troops would have to re-win the war again and again. Sounds a little strange, but okay.

A few more paces down the digital road and you encounter a sullen looking woman holding a dog leash, the collar attached to a man lying nude on the floor of a prison. Your digital tour guide explains: “An unfortunate picture was taken. Luckily, the bad apple was punished and military honor was restored.” Fair enough. Soon, a digital General David Petraeus strides forward and shoots you another thumbs-up. (It looks as if they just put a new cyber-skin over the President Bush avatar to save money.) “He surged his way to victory and the mission was accomplished again,” you hear over strains of the National Anthem and a chorus of “ hooahs.”

Past is Prologue

Admittedly, we humans are lousy at predicting the future, so don’t count on any of this coming to pass: no eye implants, no voices beamed into your head, no Amazooglebook. None of it. Except, maybe, that Iraq War timeline. If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

[malaise]

1. The government sanctioned corporate presentation of the present

is not that different either.
Think Occupy versus Kiev
Think London protests v Kiev

Maybe Richard Engel should stay home and cover protests for a change

[xchrom]

2. +1

[Solly Mack]

3. kr

[daleanime]

4. K&R....

[Diclotican]

5. xchrom

xchrom

As long as books exist - you know that old fashioned thing where you have no wifi - and no internet connection - just words on paper - as long as they exist - the truth will be out - and be written over and over and over again...

Even if they was to "wash clean" the history about the atrocities who happened in the Iraq war - the truth will come out - it will exist in Iraq - and it will exist in archives to give enough evidences that the Iraq war was a crime against humanity .... Even today over 70 year of the fall of Nazi-Germany - unknown archives with documents about the crimes germans did in WW2 is shredding new lights to the plight of the victims - and also to show how deep the crimes indeed was.... And I guess it exist many archives who is still yet to be discovered in dark corners around Europe...

The same is the fact in the US - crimes who Pentagon did in the Iraq war will be known 50-100 years after the fact - mostly because people tend to forget where they archived stuff - or they lost track of where it was - and then many decades later - the documents resurface from the past...

Diclotican