horse of george

Released, reams of documents detailing Pentagon's attempt to 'spin' the war - phrases to use, narratives to sell etc etc - and of course lefties get all apoplectic about it - we were mislead, tricked, fooled!! Question is, should this be surprising? Hasn't this always been the case? Certainly, I believe every significant war America has marched into has been spun, it's just that in the 'popular' ones people don't seem to mind so much. Civil War really about freeing slaves? Undoubtedly a wide majority of Americans believe it was but truth is it was about a lot of things, most of which had not so much to do with mules and forty acres going to displaced Africans. Point is, of course wars are gonna get spun by the powers that be - given the unpleasantness of their natures [what subject being modified here?] hard to imagine it being otherwise. Not that one shouldn't train a somewhat jaundiced eye on the actors - but probably more important to watch out that in the process of running the show those actors don't end up fooling themselves, which certainly seems to have been the case in Iraq.