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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/pentagon">https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/pentagon</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">f</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">our star Army General Barry McCaffrey (Ret.) is sounding the alarm on reports acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller has</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/12/career-military-officials-stunned-as-trumps-pentagon-chief-bans-biden-transition-team-report/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">banned Pentagon brass from holding meetings</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">with Biden transition team officials, leaving career military staff "stunned."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Pentagon abruptly halts Biden transition—- MAKES NO SENSE. CLAIM THEY ARE OVERWHELMED. DOD GOES OPAQUE. TRUMP-MILLER UP TO NO GOOD. <b>DANGER. </b>—-" <a href="https://twitter.com/mccaffreyr3/status/1339966295656124416" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">tweeted</a> McCaffrey, who is a well-known and highly-respected NBC News and MSNBC military analyst.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reports from <a href="https://www.axios.com/pentagon-biden-transition-briefings-123a9658-4af1-4632-a6e6-770117784d60.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Axios</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/acting-pentagon-chief-halts-cooperation-with-biden-team-on-transition-2020-12" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Business Insider</a> both say Pentagon officials are feeling "overwhelmed" by the number of meetings they've attended with Biden staff, and Miller has decided to order a two-week break for the holidays.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An official who spoke with Business Insider attempted to soften the ban, "explaining that the Pentagon and the Biden transition team agreed to a break and that the transition meetings are being rescheduled for after the holidays."</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That report adds "other transition activities, such as answering requests for information and providing written materials, continue uninterrupted, the official explained."</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last month (video below) McCaffrey expressed great concern about Trump getting rid of senior Pentagon officials – including his Secretary of Defense – and substituting them with top Trump loyalists. McCaffrey said he was "alarmed" with the shakeup.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"If I was a CIA officer trying to understand what was going on in a third-world country and I saw this pattern of behavior, I would say the strongman's trying to take over the government and defy an election."...</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">trump's </font><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump-coup-2648865938/" aria-label="Trump's purge at the Pentagon is increasing fears of a coup-in-progress" data-type="text" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" outline="outline" px="px" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height" style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">purge at the Pentagon is increasing fears of a coup-in-progress</a></p><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px; display: inline-block; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/kenny_stancil" data-type="text" style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;">Kenny Stancil</a> <a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/common-dreams" data-type="text" style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;">Common Dreams</a></div><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><div class="social-date" style="margin-top: 8px; display: inline-block; color: rgb(164, 162, 160); font-size: 1.4rem; vertical-align: top; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span class="social-datetext" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; color: rgb(142, 142, 142); top: 3px; position: relative; line-height: 1; left: -3px;">November 12, 2020</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2648865938" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; font-size: 17px; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p>Fears that a possible slow-motion coup is in progress in the United States continued to grow on Wednesday, as observers sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump's decision to install "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/11/downright-dangerous-democrat-alarm-as-trump-stacks-pentagon-with-loyalists" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">extreme Republican partisans</a>" at the Pentagon after his <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-esper-who-flinched-at-military-crackdown-out-at-pentagon?ref=author" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">firing </a>of Defense...</p></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 1220</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Friday, the White House fired nine members of the Pentagon's Defense Business Board and installed people loyal to President Donald Trump, Politico reports. 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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A four-star United States retired general is sounding the alarm on key national security concerns after President Donald J. Trump shakes up the Pentagon staff less than one week after losing the election to President-elect Joe Biden.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I have been shot at a lot and nearly killed a bunch of times," said Gen. Barry Richard McCaffrey (ret.). "I'm not an alarmist. I stay cool under pressure. Mark me down as alarmed. I just listened to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) — wonderful, experienced, mature guy — say this is just payback to [Mark] Esper not being a loyalist. I don't believe it. We're watching a setup of some people who are unqualified for office to be in control of the 2.1 million men and women of the armed forces."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McCaffrey said, "And I remind our viewers, the only one who can give orders to the armed forces is the president and the secretary of defense. This acting secretary Chris Miller is a perfectly good, experienced combat soldier. He is unqualified for this office. The other three, one of them, a retired one-star, is a dangerous man. That team moving in, no one in his right mind would have accepted an appointment for 90 days. These people are in there to control a coercive institution of U.S. democracy. Watch out."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Host Ari Melber asked McCaffrey, "What specifically are you warning against, general?</b> Do you feel based on your knowledge of these individuals and the situation that you have a credible reason or evidence to think that there could be an effort to enlist the military in something unlawful?"</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">"The federal government tools could be used in an oppressive manner, start with the attorney general of the United States, the Department of Homeland Security, and federal law enforcement agencies, who — unless they get an order that is patently illegal — will carry out their instructions. So the end of the story is, you know, I don't believe in any way this should be minimized or this is just a tantrum of a president trying to accommodate himself to the outcome of the elections. This is some crazy thinking going on inside that White House."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>McCaffrey added, "If I was a CIA officer trying to understand what was going on in a third-world country and I saw this pattern of behavior, I would say the stronghand's trying to take over the government and defy an election — and I think they're playing with that idea inside the White House</b>. I can't imagine that Sen. <b>Rob Portman (R-OH) </b>and even [Sen. Mitch] McConnell (R-KY) and people like this are going to disregard the Constitution, but I think that's the thinking that's going on in the White House right now and we ought to be worried about it. And the Republicans in Congress ought to speak up and push back."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch the video below.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the “War on Terror” was launched in 2001, mainstream media – especially cable TV news – started a parade. It was a narrow parade of hawkish retired military and intelligence brass promoting war as the response to the crime of 9/11, predicting success and identifying foreign enemies to attack. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We can look back at this parade and laugh at the total nonsense dispensed. But the more human response is to cry – over the toll, still mounting, of hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths from Afghanistan to Iraq and beyond, and violent instability across the region, including countries that were relatively stable and prosperous on Sept. 10, 2001. (Not to mention militarization and loss of civil liberties at home.)</font></p><div id="TeadsNative" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I witnessed the parade of disinformation from inside cable news, where I worked as an on-air contributor at Fox News and MSNBC at the beginning of the War on Terror. In fact, this parade eventually <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.commondreams.org%252Fviews%252F2008%252F04%252F28%252Fmilitary-propaganda-pushed-me-tv%26data%3D02%257C01%257Cjcohen%2540ithaca.edu%257Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%257Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%257C0%257C0%257C636574445291620847%26sdata%3Dgs%252BL0SWkN%252Ft6bc3WfiOPMOhRxY%252B3AMHOT%252F5Dw056K3Y%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1522166649865000&usg=AFQjCNE4VIXj2io6K3kf8Qg-XBq22SX4Jg" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fviews%2F2008%2F04%2F28%2Fmilitary-propaganda-pushed-me-tv&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C0%7C636574445291620847&sdata=gs%2BL0SWkN%2Ft6bc3WfiOPMOhRxY%2B3AMHOT%2F5Dw056K3Y%3D&reserved=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">knocked me off the air</a> – and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftruth-out.org%252Farchive%252Fcomponent%252Fk2%252Fitem%252F67698%253Ajeff-cohen--inside-tv-news-we-were-silenced-by-the-drums-of-war%26data%3D02%257C01%257Cjcohen%2540ithaca.edu%257Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%257Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%257C0%257C0%257C636574445291620847%26sdata%3DIhgAtQvo3rMinF7I80J%252FtsDz%252BZLcBDItfH5zdOuneH0%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1522166649865000&usg=AFQjCNFYm2M6QiMX2Q4vN50e6NgZEMgevA" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftruth-out.org%2Farchive%2Fcomponent%2Fk2%2Fitem%2F67698%3Ajeff-cohen--inside-tv-news-we-were-silenced-by-the-drums-of-war&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C0%7C636574445291620847&sdata=IhgAtQvo3rMinF7I80J%2FtsDz%2BZLcBDItfH5zdOuneH0%3D&reserved=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">out of my job</a> at MSNBC, three weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s now the <b>15th anniversary of the tragic invasion of Iraq.</b> The huge mainstream media failure in the run-up to the invasion is taught in college journalism courses, including mine.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Who can forget CNN’s Chief News Executive <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DNRKU6l6xyto%26data%3D02%257C01%257Cjcohen%2540ithaca.edu%257Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%257Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%257C0%257C0%257C636574445291620847%26sdata%3DerVuS8x%252FQR2LKVtLW6HcX991UeueWpnYTRVQixZtN58%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1522166649865000&usg=AFQjCNFrwfAtyBD1cFWbnzs4hC2p0Q0NJA" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNRKU6l6xyto&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C0%7C636574445291620847&sdata=erVuS8x%2FQR2LKVtLW6HcX991UeueWpnYTRVQixZtN58%3D&reserved=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">boasting</a> that, before the Iraq invasion, he’d sought prior approval and received “a big thumbs up” from the Pentagon on the ex-generals that CNN featured as allegedly independent analysts?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Who can forget David Barstow’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2008%252F04%252F20%252Fus%252F20generals.html%26data%3D02%257C01%257Cjcohen%2540ithaca.edu%257Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%257Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%257C0%257C0%257C636574445291620847%26sdata%3DY9lp9%252Fo8IvORvfAvdWbR6rrsuvSBz17aplGNKclMiik%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1522166649865000&usg=AFQjCNEYeSZls3hZ5xhuoAwvQ2D3WVaOzg" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F04%2F20%2Fus%2F20generals.html&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C0%7C636574445291620847&sdata=Y9lp9%2Fo8IvORvfAvdWbR6rrsuvSBz17aplGNKclMiik%3D&reserved=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">expose</a> for the New York Times – based on 8,000 pages of internal Pentagon emails and transcripts – showing that network TV’s hawkish retired generals were not only being paid by big military contractors, but were being spoon-fed talking points and spin by the Pentagon month after month as they paraded on TV?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Who can forget that NBC/MSNBC’s top military analyst<b>, ex-Gen. Barry McCaffrey,</b> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.commondreams.org%252Fviews%252F2006%252F08%252F04%252Fbeing-tv-expert-means-never-having-say-youre-sorry%26data%3D02%257C01%257Cjcohen%2540ithaca.edu%257Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%257Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%257C0%257C0%257C636574445291620847%26sdata%3Dz9xKFDYyvMa5dV0xbsMS%252Fpc4tD59asyZDgYXDZf96WU%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1522166649865000&usg=AFQjCNHilyGsXcj_JGD7YkAkt8OqJKZiXw" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fviews%2F2006%2F08%2F04%2Fbeing-tv-expert-means-never-having-say-youre-sorry&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C0%7C636574445291620847&sdata=z9xKFDYyvMa5dV0xbsMS%2Fpc4tD59asyZDgYXDZf96WU%3D&reserved=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">relentlessly pushed for war</a> based on falsehoods (“thousands of gallons of mustard agents, sarin, nerve agent VX still in Iraq”), offered continuously ridiculous punditry (like praising Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s advance-planning of the Iraq occupation), and famously <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.thenation.com%252Farticle%252Ftvs-conflicted-experts%252F%26data%3D02%257C01%257Cjcohen%2540ithaca.edu%257Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%257Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%257C0%257C0%257C636574445291620847%26sdata%3DqiNT%252BSZ03x7jkYyxEs1qK%252BsxYnXpR99O1R6RgUcg5Fo%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1522166649865000&usg=AFQjCNEuk9mfUnpLAKgP5XZScJcKlTMleQ" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Farticle%2Ftvs-conflicted-experts%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7Ca2cf7ec0235e4af6a37708d59115d374%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C0%7C636574445291620847&sdata=qiNT%2BSZ03x7jkYyxEs1qK%2BsxYnXpR99O1R6RgUcg5Fo%3D&reserved=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">crowed</a> on MSNBC, “Thank God for the Abrams tank and the Bradley fighting vehicle” – without mentioning his<b> role at military contractor IDT </b>that made millions for doing God’s work on the Abrams and Bradley? </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who can forget all these things?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I turned on the “progressive” news channel a few nights ago to see Chris Hayes politely interviewing <b>Gen. McCaffrey. </b>Did Hayes – during the week marking the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq – press McCaffrey on his role in that disaster? Perhaps demand an explanation or an apology? No. The topic was Trump’s weird attraction to Putin. That’s a worthy topic. But Barry McCaffrey as expert and arbiter! Still?MSNBC, apparently.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just as they did in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, MSNBC and CNN now serve up a steady parade of war-hawks, spies and liars, presenting them as credible and almost heroic as long as they criticize the despicable man in the White House.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div></div></div>