How I Was Blacklisted at CNN, and How Easily America Goes to War Now

Peter Van Buren 

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August 26, 2016

Two years ago a group of Yazidis, a minority spread across Iran, Iraq and Turkey, were being threatened by a group called ISIS few American were focused on. Obama declared a genocide was about to happen, and the U.S. had to act. US officials said they believed that some type of ground force would be necessary to secure the safety of the stranded members of the Yazidi group. The military drew up plans for limited airstrikes and the deployment of 150 ground troops.

As the Yazidi situation was unfolding, I was invited to tape a discussion there alongside the usual retired US military colonel. I was asked a single question, explained in my answer that the US was in fact using the Yazidi “humanitarian crisis/faux genocide” as an excuse to re-enter the Iraq quagmire, and equated it to George W. Bush’s flim-flam about weapons of mass destruction in 2003.

The host literally said I was wrong. I was not asked another question, though the colonel was given several minutes to explain the urgency of the situation, demand America act where no one else would, and assure the public that Obama planned only limited, surgical strikes and that was it, one and done.

My question was edited out, the colonel’s lengthy answer was played on air, and my very brief moment in the glow of CNN was ended even though I wore a nice suit and a tie. Oh well, we still have each other here, and hey, CNN, my number’s still the same if you wanna call.

 DYI Comments:  So typical of the mainstream press and especially of CNN.  Only 6% to 10% of Americans believe what is said by the mainstream with the internet press going viral.  A battle for the 1st amendment is on the horizon as these companies push their political hacks to "clamp down" on the internet.  This is coming very soon.  If Hillary Clinton becomes President the internet will come under harsh controls bringing in back door tyranny. 

DYI