February 22nd

This week's readings had a section titled "Saving private Lynch" and briefly described the account.

Here is a more in depth look at what really happened....

And here is a direct response to the New York Times article, and it includes a youtube clip as well.

Here is an amusing political cartoon that i found went along with this week's information.

And last but not least, a wikipedia(ish) page devoted to the pentagon scandal!

I found that these four sources a few good perspectives on the topic of the pentagon basically asking their analysts to say what they wanted them to say. I found the response was very interesting and showed a different outlook on the story. Finding the wiki page about this topic showed me that this was much bigger news than i had realized. The political cartoon was somewhat on topic but i just found it to be funny (i personally am a big fan of political cartoons). This topic to me really made me feel even more strongly of my preexisting feelings that the government is not usually telling us the truth. They tell us what they want us to hear and only in rare cases does bad press come out about our country, and it usually is on accident (i.e. Guantanamo Bay). The fact that all of this information came out that clearly shows that the people in the Pentagon told these analysts what to say, and despite all of this evidence a representative from the Pentagon immediately came out and stated that all they were was provided with factual information shows me how politicians and our government will lie in a heartbeat without a second thought.