Is the Bush Cartel Issuing Pre-Emptive Disinformation to Explain Away Civilian Casualties at the Hands of U.S. and British Forces?
March 16, 2003
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Dear Buzzflash:
Last week the Pentagon put out a news release that was widely accepted by the mainstream media, claiming that Saddam Hussein had ordered replicas of U.S. uniforms -- for the purpose, they claimed, of blaming Iraqi atrocities on Americans.
While the report could of course be accurate, it just as easily could be disinformation -- intended to inoculate U.S. forces from potential charges of committing atrocities. Revelations of American military atrocities have turned public opinion against other wars (i.e. Vietnam), so the Pentagon has an interest in pre-empting such news.
In other words, if it later were alleged that innocent Iraqis had been executed, tortured, or otherwise savaged by American forces, the Pentagon already has in place a cover story: it must have been Iraqis in disguise. I have yet, however, to see an iota of skepticism expressed about this story in the media.
S.S. Pratt
Hudson, NY
Article that Reader is Referring to: story.news.yahoo.com
"The U.S. military command that would lead any invasion of Iraq is accusing Saddam Hussein of planning to order paramilitary troops in look-alike American and British uniforms to commit atrocities against Iraqis and blame it on the United States and Britain."
BuzzFlash Note: The Bush Cartel can't locate any of the WMD it says Saddam has. It says it can't take out Saddam without going to war because they don't know where he is half the time. It says that they can't beat Iraq without committing a Guernica-like bombing of Baghdad. But somehow it manages to discover a secret Iraqi plot to have Saddam's soldiers dress up like American and British soldiers and kill Iraqis. Yeah, sure, uh-huh.
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