Before I retired, I spent most of my adult life working in advertising, marketing and some public relations, so it wasn’t difficult to recognize a well-tuned campaign to market the product called: war in Iraq. Our nation’s capital is well stocked with slick operatives and, apparently, real blood is not a major obstacle to pitching their product and forwarding the administration’s agenda.

But one thing may unravel their plan – and we have an appropriate saying in it: You can fool some of the people some of the time, but can you fool all of the people all of the time? We’ll see. I would bet not.

Gordon Hammond

Westfield