Editor:

No matter who is the political power in Congress and the White House, the same ideals are firmly entrenched in U.S. policies.

It's not only these elected political leaders that are to blame for the mess America is in, but also because of the lies that this country and the people have swallowed as part of the national narrative of governmental psychological warfare to brainwash people.

The majority of mass communications research is funded by the Defense Department, which is funded by the people's tax dollars.

Language and minds can be manipulated simply by the words they employ to control what people think and discuss, so people are led to believe what control wants them to believe.

And who delivers the words and ideas can also influence how people will feel towards any given issue.

An example is the use of Colin Powell and the contrived scam to convince a skeptical world before the U.N. about the need to invade Iraq.

At the time, Colin Powell had some believable credibility and the mass media acted like stenographers instead of investigative news reporters. They repeated the lies affirmed by so-called military experts in the employ of defense contractors wanting to sell military junk for permanent worldwide war.

This also included President George W. Bush convincing the public that it was their patriotic duty to support him and Dick Cheney in their God-inspired civilizational war to protect America against fanatical Arab Muslim terrorists, and this crusade included invading Iraq that had nothing to do with 9-11.

For this war scam to work it added fear, hate and ignorance to this nonsensical argument that Iraq was a threat to the world and had all those weapons of mass destruction, and Colin Powell was presenting those phony cartoons of trucks of WMDs moving into underground caves.

And the U.S.A. - a superpower with thousands of nuclear weapons and a country that spends more tax dollars on military hardware than all of the rest of the world - was supposed to be afraid of Iraq, a country that in effect after that first Gulf War had only slingshots as its air defense.

AL HAMBURG, Torrington