War, Victims, And Tragic Mis-Communications

It is a little over a century,
a very violent century at that,
since the phrase was popularly coined
'When war is declared, the first victim is truth.'.
It was mis-attributed to U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson,
after the late entry of America
into the first world war.
Nowhere can it be found
in any papers he left behind.

That it is mis-attributed to him
is perhaps proof of the power of war,
about which Aeschylus knew more,
as the ancient Greek playwright
was the original author of the phrase
he knew about tragedy, he wrote them.

For anyone who wants to know
why the present war is happening
here is the background to it all,
you decide what might be true
and what might be lost forever. 

No Need For War With Rumour

It was Republican Senator Hiram Johnson,
quoting Aeschylus the ancient greek playwright,
who said 'The first casualty in war is truth'.
Senator Johnson quoted the phrase during WW1
and he died the day that Hiroshima was gifted
with the first explosion of an atomic bomb.

Thank goodness we have progressed since then.
The media is now much broader, multi-platform!

Whilst the military/industrial complex
still needs to be fed juicy gov't contracts
there is less need for the U.S. to distribute
the products from it over all the poorest
peoples of the world, as if  the U.S.A.
were amnesiacs, forgetfully re-enacting
a less charitable version of 'The Marshall Plan'.

With an ever expanding media
we simply tell ourselves more lies
about everything under the sun
-particularly about true science
and the needs of foreign peoples.