Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Hijacking Of Pat Tillman's Story" video.

  1. As a student of the run-up to World War II, it broke my heart, the way Neville Chamberlain signed away Czechoslovakia at Munich. I was drilled on how "Appeasement" was a bad policy that only encouraged aggression. So when Iraq was presented as a Middle-East Hitler, I was pre-disposed toward active measures. But the yellow-cake story sounded a little bit fishy, but still, Saddam was very bad. Orange-man bad. And OMG WMDs! I remember how EXCITED people were. All my Democrat friends were watching the embedded reporters' reports just as breathlessly as much as any crazed prepper with a fetish for big guns. That also bugged me. Everybody was so behind the war effort. Obama voting AGAINST the Iraq War really set him apart from the rest. As a Democrat, he was too state-centric for my taste, but I had hopes I could get behind the guy on foreign policy, at least. Saw some encouraging signs, at first, like taking down the statue of Winston Churchill. But then he slipped smoothly into neoliberal/neocon gear, just as vicious and underhanded as all the rest. Maybe more so, because Obama was always the good guy. Lock up reporters?! That's an OUTRAGE!!! What? It was just Barry? Well, he must've had a good reason. Now, what were we talking about, before? When they didn't find the WMDs and I saw burning oil wells stretching from the foreground clear to the horizon, I knew I'd been had. This is what stopping Hitler at Munich looks like. Hmmm. I think a lot of OTHER people knew they'd been had, too. I think that's a big part of why the same old MSM (now "legacy media") started losing traction. They were at their absolute zenith after 9/11, put all their weight behind a war, succeeded, and things have never been the same, since. People are finally sick of it. It's gotten to the level of PRAVDA and TASS at the height of the Cold War, and this isn't exactly Soviet Russia (yet). They try to put the clamps on, but there's nowhere near the dominance that you saw just a few years ago.
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