Just Some More Propaganda. Never You Mind, Right?

Here’s a heartwarming story about a couple of military men, tired of war, who have worked their fingers to the bone to build a place where other soldiers, tired of war, can plead to go home. They labored “from the inside” to build a grass-roots organization.

Except that’s not true.

The website started by the soldiers is backed by organizations all of whom share one thing – a professional PR firm with long-standing anti-war ties (they represent MoveOn.org and coordinated Cindy Sheehan’s media love-ins, among other things). One of the soldiers, Jonathan Hutto, was an anti-war activist whose work had been featured in at least two socialist publications. The “inspiration” for the site, David Cortright, is not simply an author and “peace studies” professor, but an anti-war activist who heads a group that has raised tens of thousands of dollars, at least, for anti-war protest groups and that owns Hutto’s site. Greyhawk has all these details and plenty more. His post is a must-read today.

Oh, and interestingly enough, though the Post wrote the article thanks to a press conference on Monday, Greyhawk’s post was written back in October, 2006. So it’s not like none of this information was known before this week.

This is no simple grass roots web site. It’s a slick, well-funded, and highly-organized effort to push more anti-war propaganda to you through a willing and uncritical MSM. It looks like the Washington Post sucked down the bait. Again.

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