08-06-2015, 02:42 PM
Joaquin Castro is a Democratic congressman in a Republican-controlled House. No matter how interested he personally is, he has no power to do anything about it.
Look, the US government invents its own reality, and for the most part the corporate media goes along with it.
I will never forget the way Bush told reporters THREE TIMES that Saddam wouldn't let the UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq, and that's why we had to invade. Never mind that UN weapons inspectors had been in Iraq for months until Bush told them to get out.
When a President can lie about a war so shamelessly on television, and the corporate media doesn't call him out, and Congress doesn't impeach him, and many Americans just didn't give a f*ck, please don't expect them to listen to your experts. If the government doesn't just ignore them altogether (something they do frequently), they will just produce a dozen hired-gun 'experts' to refute them.
Look, the US government invents its own reality, and for the most part the corporate media goes along with it.
I will never forget the way Bush told reporters THREE TIMES that Saddam wouldn't let the UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq, and that's why we had to invade. Never mind that UN weapons inspectors had been in Iraq for months until Bush told them to get out.
When a President can lie about a war so shamelessly on television, and the corporate media doesn't call him out, and Congress doesn't impeach him, and many Americans just didn't give a f*ck, please don't expect them to listen to your experts. If the government doesn't just ignore them altogether (something they do frequently), they will just produce a dozen hired-gun 'experts' to refute them.