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AMEC Seminar: ‘Ending Israeli Apartheid
A One-State Solution’
Date: Saturday,6 Feb 2010
Venue: AMEC Seminar Room,38
Louw Geldenhuys Drv,Emmarentia,JHB
Time: 3pm
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Todays ancient warfare facts vs beliefs
By Jeff Gates
(source: Veterens Today)
In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon. Recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories?
Iraqi meetings in Prague with Al Qaeda? Iraqi purchases of yellowcake uranium from Niger? All these claims were reported as true. All were later proven false or, worse, fabricated. Yet all were widely believed. Only the yellowcake uranium was conceded as bogus before the invasion of Iraq. As the U.S. crafted its response to the provocation of a mass murder on U.S. soil, those widely shared beliefs shaped a consensus to wage war on a nation that had no hand in it.