Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Zarqawi; the Pentagon's ongoing war of deception�������


We knew that this Zarqawi myth was psyops right about the time Nick Berg was decapitated, blunting the effects of the Abu Ghraib revelations.

The supposed amputee, with the prosthetic leg, was very nimble in that video, as I recall.

Dear God, these Bushites are an evil lot.

Zarqawi; the Pentagon�s ongoing war of deception�������:

"04/17/06 'ICH' -- -- In more than 3 years of war, there has never been a positive citing of alleged terror mastermind Abu Musab al Zarqawi. This has led many to believe that he is merely a creation of Pentagon propagandists working with their agents in the western press. Colonel Derek Harvey strengthened those suspicions last week when he admitted in a Washington Post article that the military intentionally 'enlarged Zarqawi's caricature' to create the impression that the ongoing struggle against occupation was really a fight against terrorism. But, that is not the case. As Harvey notes, 'The long term threat is not Zarqawi or religious extremists, but former regime types and their friends'.

The Pentagon has tried to discredit Col. Harvey, but the damage has already been done. The mask has been removed from the War Dept's rather ineffective black-op, and the American public has a great opportunity to see the amount of energy that goes into fabricating a narrative to support an unpopular war.

The Zarqawi-myth is strikingly different from other examples of Pentagon propaganda. The Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman stories both followed a familiar pattern of exaggerating American bravery to shore up support on the home-front. This type of propaganda is harmless and can be expected to appear in virtually any conflict. So too, there's nothing unusual about the Pentagon's attempts to distance itself from its actions which resulted in the needless (but predictable) deaths of innocent civilians, like the bombing of wedding parties or the recent rampage in Haditha where a number Iraqi noncombatants were killed. All this is par for the course."

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