Saturday, July 03, 2004
Big Surprise...
Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue
Statue being pulled down = lie
Jessica Lynch story = lie
I'm having a tough time coming up with a truthful story.
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The Army's internal study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the invasion.WMDs = lie
As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein. It was a Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said.
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After the colonel — who was not named in the report — selected the statue as a "target of opportunity," the psychological team used loudspeakers to encourage Iraqi civilians to assist, according to an account by a unit member.
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Ultimately, a Marine recovery vehicle toppled the statue with a chain, but the effort appeared to be Iraqi-inspired because the psychological team had managed to pack the vehicle with cheering Iraqi children.
Statue being pulled down = lie
Jessica Lynch story = lie
I'm having a tough time coming up with a truthful story.
If you want to read the entire story, feel free to use registrationsuxxx as the login and regsux as the password. I've declared war on newspaper site registration.
