by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com


12/22/04

Another key weakness in the War Party's armor, which the latest propaganda blitz is designed to disguise, is the growing realization by the ordinary man-in-the-street that we were lied into war. Combined with increasing revulsion at the high casualty count, there is the potential for generating a huge backlash against the warmongers.

People naturally want to know who lied us into war: they want to identify the culprits, and bring them to some kind of justice, or at least a public reckoning of some kind. Some would call this scapegoating. Others, a deserved comeuppance. In any case, the War Party is desperate to avoid this at all costs, and they are currently scrambling to deflect blame for the policies they originated and fought for -- by diverting attention to their former frontman and hero, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4199


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp