[lbo-talk] Crossing the Rubicon

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Mon Oct 18 10:47:03 PDT 2004


On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Joseph Wanzala wrote:


> Americans will be
> horrified when they find out just what really was going on, how those
> "live-fly" exercises affected the out come and who was running the
> show.
> Ruppert painstakingly walks the reader through these war games
> exercises
> and how it was deliberately engineered to hide certain things happening
> that day. This narrative will fully answer people's questions about why
> our military didn't respond until it was too late. The facts will shock
> you.
>

So why keep us in suspense? What are the "certain things" that happened that day? What are "the facts" that will shock us?

I suppose these crucial items are being withheld so that we will buy the book. In other words, getting the truth out is not the point; getting the rubes into the tent is.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit, 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet; Nor ever ever shall, until that I die, For the longer I live the more fool am I. -- Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melancholy (1684)



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