This goes along really well as a companion viewing to Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares, as well as Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. Check it out if you haven't already, Jeff. http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1031075

I'll see about finding it some place from where I can properly post it, but my queue is all full at the moment.

RE: Constitutional Patriot

Noam Chomsky has been talking about this issue for years, he says Americans wouldn't care because they don't. It's only now several years after the war on terror and the campaign in Iraq that ordinary Americans are coming around.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Manufacturing-Consent-Noam-Chomsky-and-the-Media

Manufacturing consent?