If such facts are problematic, then is more daylight is needed? “Problematic” is only spoken when there is a bigger picture which is even worse than the facts available. That kind of “problematic” becomes a national security threat in terms of further destroying any ground our nation stood on in terms of human rights.

I wonder what will happen when they crotch grap some of them macho, curb-stomping, neo-nazi, Tbgrs…

I wonder if the fear the government has regards its own populace having the truth is well-founded. I don’t believe I’ve heard one elected official, at a national level, call for an investigation.

And these calls for an investigation, just who will run the investigation? The Pentagon? A commission picked by one of the people who should be investigated (Obama — and that’s the weakness of the UN call)? By a somnolent Congress?

As in the days of the Bertrand Russell commission on war crimes, we just may have to do it ourselves.

Us “whiners” are definitely problematic for them. The MIC feels threatened by the truth. What they need are lots of obedient citizen breeders and home educated volunteers (they have to be carefully taught..South Pacific)that will do the dirty work and keep the wars and oil going and that is who they appeal to…I really that is what is happening. Just like Germany and its expansionism.

Via CNET News:

Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs?

Forget China or Al Qaeda. In a twist that would have been inconceivable even a few months ago, the WikiLeaks.org Web site is being proposed as the first public target for a U.S. government cyberattack…

…In a rare point of congruence, the Washington Post and the Washington Times both criticized the release, with the smaller paper arguing that WikiLeaks’ offshore Web site should be attacked and rendered “inoperable” by the U.S. government. Some hawkish conservatives followed suit, including Christian Whiton, a State Department adviser under President George W. Bush, who wrote a column calling on the U.S. military to “electronically assault WikiLeaks and any telecommunications company offering its services to this organization…”

Are the ‘pat-downs’ going to be women doing the men and the men doing the women? Will the beautiful people be the ones called out most often for the ‘random’ search?

As long as anti-war is synonymous with anti-American, it’s difficult not to get that feeling. But, I would assume Lynn probably reserves his ire for people or groups that can actually have some semblance of influence on the U.S. government, and sadly that ain’t us.

This nation is still feeling the effect of the Vietnam tragedy. So long ago, but it is still alive in the minds of military planners and the right wing. The view in those quarters is that the United States could have and should have ‘won the war’ by staying the course, but was forced by domestic opposition (mostly DFH’s)to withdraw and suffer an embarrassing defeat. Nobody ever defeat’s the United Stats (at least not since the War of 1812).

Those wounds healed over, but the deep scars were never erased. The odd thing is that the number of us who were around and opposed intervention in 1964 and 1965 are getting fewer and fewer, as are those who protested in the late 60s and early 70s. But the event is deeply engrained into some kind of institutional memory. ‘Never again’ is the password. And yes, it is the American people who are the enemy here. They don’t know their best interests. Only the military planners do.

Here’s a prediction: if the reich wing win the 2012 election, we will probably have a military coup to prevent the worse-case scenario of total annihilation, not to mention sovereign default by the United States. We will be in Pakistani or Turkish territory, where the military safeguards what’s left of the nation.

What a pass we’ve come to. Norske is right.

It’s problematic because:

It clearly shows that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Rice, Gates, etc are in FACT war criminals! That is what the actual problem for them is. Not that anyone is being hurt now in our armed forces. Just the MIA and the NeoCons are being exposed. Now there is documented truth, where as we have all had our opinions and a few loose facts flying around. We now have a legit piece of work to show proof.

Brilliant! Bravo, nicely written. I love it. With each use of that pivotal word, we see into another field of our hypermilitarized Commons. The battlespace background of their worldview has become our foreground.

The Pentagonization of US Life
Pepe Escobar interviewing Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse for The Real News Network
July 20, 2008

NICK TURSE, TOMDISPATCH.COM: Well, I mean, you know, back in Eisenhower’s day, the military-industrial complex really didn’t extend far beyond the, you know, Lockheed factory floor. This was, you know, the major weapons dealers, armaments manufacturers, and the mega-corporations like, say, General Motors. Now, today, Lockheed, Boeing, they’re still the largest of military contractors, and, you know, GM still plays a part in these big mega-corporations. But today, you know, the Pentagon has tentacles that extend far beyond that. They’ve gone into—they’re just about every sector of American life. So, you know, the contractors today include, you know, such well-known civilian firms as Apple and Starbucks, and, you know, even down to, you know, small restaurants, catfish restaurants, or religious stores. At this point, you know, there’s somewhere around 100,000 or more, you know, at least, subcontractors on the Pentagon payroll.

ESCOBAR: Tell me about the research that went into your book, because it’s incredibly detailed. Were you tracking basically what newsletters the American media for the past five years or so [inaudible]?

TURSE: Well, you know, Tom kind of alluded to this. I’m [sic] used a lot of open-source information. You know, there’s a lot of this spread around the mainstream media. It’s in the last paragraph of newspaper stories or buried in the, you know, pubic relations literature from these corporations who are Pentagon contractors. And, actually, the Department of Defense itself puts a lot of information out there. They bury it in websites. They produce a lot of propaganda. But if you look beyond, you know, the spin out of extremely useful information, and then the trick of it is to try to put it together in some coherent way so you can tese [sic] out the real stories.

ESCOBAR: So you would say that American life is totally Pentagonized.

TURSE: Yeah. There’s been a real militarization of the entire society and the economy, but not one that people realize. You know, there aren’t, you know, parades with tanks rolling down the street and guys in uniform, but this is going on covertly. It’s in the pop culture, in the hottest movies—last year, Transformers, the movie, a huge blockbuster hit, major Pentagon influence; this year, Ironman. They find ways to infiltrate the American mainstream culture.

No parades, but we do flyovers of sports stadiums all the time, etc. Where better to demonstrate to a captive congregation the shocking awe of our mechanized god?

Much obliged, EW.

I hope everyone realizes that once these guys start sounding like this to you, there’s no turning back;>