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Originally Posted by D Rice
the population of iraq is roughly 22 million. I believe i heard the number of terrorists or insurgents (i'm confused to) they estimate to be around 19,000. I have also heard the number of insurgents or terrorists in Iraq that are foreigners (Al-Quaida from Africa) is close to 15,000. I am not 100% sure on the facts but if this is the case then what bush is saying (we are fighting terrorism abroad) is true. Maybe the people of Iraq wanted thier freedom from Saddam. It looked that way when we first "liberated" them. They were tearing down statues, waving American flags, hugging soilders. I guess it took the people who hate America a few months to get there. Just a thought.
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With the numerous and still growing volumes of evidence convincingly
demonstrating the misleading nature of the Bush administration as to the
justification for invading Iraq, and the staged toppling of the Baghdad
statue of Saddam. and the staged "rescue" of Jessica Lynch, do you
regularly search resources such as google news to learn the details of the
Iraq war, or do you depend on more narrow sources, such as Fox News or
the Washington Times to base your conclusions on?
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<a href="http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:AIpTZfz1hCoJ:www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1511~2458510,00.html+&hl=en&start=1">How Bush turned into another Nixon</a>
.....Bush could recoup by Nov. 2 for all manner of reasons, including his showing in the subsequent debates, both yet to come as I write. John F. Kerry is no John F. Kennedy. But the liberal blog Daily Kos had the big picture right: On Sept. 30, "months of meticulous image manipulation" by the Bush-Cheney forces went "down the toilet in 90 minutes."
That's a shocking development because, until recently, that manipulation had been meticulous and then some. The administration has been brilliant at concocting camera-ready video narratives that flatter if not outright fictionalize its actions: "Saving Jessica Lynch," "Shock and Awe," the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue (a sparsely populated, unspontaneous event, when seen in the documentary "Control Room"), "Mission Accomplished."
Bush has been posed by his imagineers to appear to be the fifth head on Mount Rushmore; he has kept the coffins of the American war dead off-screen; he has been seen in shirtsleeves at faux-folksy Town Hall meetings that, until his second debate with Kerry, were so firmly policed in content and attendees that they would make a Skull and Bones soiree look like a paragon of democracy in action.
Time reported last spring that even the Department of Homeland Security was told to take a break from its appointed tasks to round up one terrorism-fighting photo op a month for the president.
To enforce the triumphalist narrative of these cinematic efforts, the Bush team had to cut out any skeptical press, or, as Bush once put it, "go over the heads of the filter and speak directly to the people" (as long as they're pre-selected).
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<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm">Eyewitness Report: The Toppling Of Saddam Statue: Video & Text</a>
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<a href="http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0704/161032.html">http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0704/161032.html</a>
I-Team: Toppling of Saddam's Statue Staged?
Thursday July 22, 2004 4:32pm Reporter: Andrea McCarren
.....THE I-TEAM OBTAINED AN INTERNAL ARMY REVIEW WHICH DETAILS THE TOPPLING OF THE STATUE.
IT REVEALS THAT A PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS UNIT ON THE SCENE PLAYED A KEY ROLE.
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A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN THE WAR WITH IRAQ - THE STATUE OF SADDAM BROUGHT TO THE GROUND IN BAGHDAD'S AL-FIRDOS SQUARE. THOUSANDS OF IRAQI CITIZENS REJOICING IN A SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATION. OR WAS IT SOMETHING ELSE?
Professor Christopher Simpson, American University: "This particular event was more of what you might call a propaganda event. It was a publicity, a photo-op if you will."
IN FACT, THE REPORT OBTAINED BY THE I-TEAM INDICATES THAT AN ARMY PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS TEAM ORCHESTRATED MUCH OF WHAT TRANSPIRED.....
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