Star struck

Some of your tax dollars, you may have heard, have been spent on a secret domestic propaganda program with the goal of convincing you that the tax dollars you are spending in Iraq -- and the blood that our soldiers are sacrificing -- is a good idea.

A columnist for Salon.com writes about the Pentagon documents that outline the program that has retired generals who appear on TV and radio spouting the Bush Administration's official line, or in the words of military memos, "carry our water...because we are their bread and butter." Some of that "bread and butter" is in the form of military contracts awarded to giant corporations, many of which have those same generals on their boards of directors. Oh, and guess whose tax dollars are paying those corporations?