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Fire or demote military spokespeople who lie

Why Is This Idea Important?: Counterinsurgency wars are known as "fourth-generation warfare." Information control is critical. If we become known as chronic liars, we will lose the war, regardless of what goes on in the field. Of course, the best strategy would be to end all of these unwinnable wars now and bring ALL the troops home NOW.

Throughout the Bush-Cheney wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now in Obama's Af-Pak War, US military spokespeople have made hundreds of public statements that later turned out to be false and/or unsupported by accurate information from the field. This has brought back the Credibility Gap that the mass media noticed during the Vietnam War. After each bombing of civilians in a village or town, the military should either admit that our troops committed an atrocity or say they don't have enough information to make a public statement yet. If they make a statement that turns out to be false, they should be fired or demoted. These false statements are damaging the credibility of our nation and contributing to our defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Submitted by energetic 2 years ago

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  1. Robert David STEELE Vivas said:

    Voted for it, this idea needs to be clustered (something this web site does not allow which is quite amazing int this day of Web 2.0) with all of the other truth and ethics ideas.

    Truth and integrity are the bottom line for America, and if and when the rest of the joins the 2,000 or so folks focusing on this now, this database will crash, but perhaps then Obama will demand a serious outreach effort properly supported conceptually and technically.

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  2. libertyferall said:

    Ah ha! Consequences for malfeasance in office. I wonder when that idea got discarded?

    2 years ago
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