Originally Posted by pan6467

I'd heard something like this right after it happened, but then never heard more about it.

A lot of war is propaganda and show, this was to immasculate the man and show him as human.

I doubt anyone could truly believe that we captured him that easily, but it makes for a great rally and pride propaganda photo op to show we did. And it allows us at home to believe the war was going smoothly and that we were fighting weaklings....

Alas, such is war. The problem the warmongers had with Vietnam was, for the first time the press showed what war really was, it showed the body bags and count every night and that war was not just some far away affair. The truth
couldn't be hidden by the propaganda and it scared the people at home into acting.

This administration has learned and has been able to keep focus on other issues.... Delay, Schiavo, and so on, and has been able to control the press far better than in the Vietnam era.