Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of “severe consequences” if a terror attack against the US would ever be traced back to Pakistan.

She told CBS while Pakistan had become more helpful in tackling extremists, co-operation could still be improved.

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Earlier, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said the US was prepared to increase military assistance to Pakistan.
“We’re willing to do as much… as they are willing to accept,” he told reporters. “We are prepared to do training, and exercise with them. How big that operation becomes is really up to them.”

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“We’ve made it very clear that if – heaven-forbid – an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences,” she warned.

Finally, after beating around the bush for so long – air drone attacks, using Blackwater mercenaries for secret assassinations, giving billions of dollars in “aid” – we’re preparing to officially declare war on Pakistan. And it’s about time too. I was getting bored with the MSM’s Iraq/Afghanistan Al-Qaeda propaganda. I can’t wait to hear them tell us how the real threat to our freedom/safety/way of life is the Taliban.

Goddammit, I’m so excited I just creamed my pants.

Update: Hillary cannot wait to fuck up some more brown people.

The black Rupert Murdoch.

In Pakistan:

The Obama administration plans to spend nearly $50 million on Pakistani media this year to reverse anti-American sentiments and raise awareness of projects aimed at improving quality of life, confirms a Washington insider.

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The US Special Representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke believes that a substantial amount of monies spent on media- especially private TV channels will reduce tension and may even bring Pakistan-US relations back on the right path.

That’s right, the Obama administration is spending taxpayers’ money on propaganda in a country we aren’t at war with. Well, the Obama administration says we aren’t at war with, but don’t tell that to the families of the three dead U.S. special forces soldiers.

But this doesn’t surprise me, because what the Obama administration is doing is taking the propaganda model the Bush administration used during the lead up to the Iraq war and using it on the Pakistanis.

What does surprise me is the 1.45 billion the Obama administration is giving the Pakistan government to help with their economic troubles:

Reuters today reported that the Obama administration has sent lawmakers a plan for funding water, energy and other projects. Report said the US intends to spend $1.45 billion of earmarked for the Kerry-Lugar bill in fiscal 2010.

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The Obama administration plans to help Pakistan’s democratic government meet budget shortfalls and deliver services to a population increasingly angry about economic and security troubles. As the funding builds the capacity of the government to provide basic services, the US sponsored Pakistani media will raise awareness and a build a brand for America, our sources have confirmed.

Could someone help me understand how this president is a socialist, Marxist, commie? Because I thought Socialism, Marxism, and Communism used taxpayers’ money to create services and programs for the taxpayers; not use taxpayers’ money to create services and programs for people in foreign countries.

Do any of you know what WW2-era Germany and Italy and present-day Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Peru, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and China have in common with the United States?  It isn’t torture.  And it isn’t the slaughtering of thousands of innocent people either.  Give up?

It’s propaganda!!!

What propaganda?  The propaganda David Barstow reported on and won a Pulitzer Prize for.

Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.

Of course some people will say, “The White House telling the Pentagon to hire retired high-ranking generals and putting them on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN, and having them read talking points that the Pentagon prepared just for them so they could drum-up support for the Iraq war, which in turn helped the companies they worked for, isn’t called  propaganda.  It’s called patriotism.”

And those people are fucking wrong.

You see, propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of people. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.

It’s what the White House used to gain support for the Iraq war.  It’s what the Germans used to gain support for the Holocaust.  It’s what North Korea uses to make its citizens think Kim Jong il pisses gold.  It’s what China and Russia uses to control their populations.

Of course those countries don’t admit to using propaganda.  They like to hide behind the “patriotism” statement just like retarded Americans do.

So if you’re one of those people who doesn’t believe our government uses propaganda, and the Main Stream Media really cares about America – please do the world a favor and follow in David Kellermann’s footsteps. Because we don’t need dumb motherfuckers like you reproducing.