What's 'obscure' about it?
All you had to do was pay attention to Desert Storm, and the run-up to the war.
It was pretty sad, really, when they tried to scam everyone by claiming that US intelligence satellites showed '1500' Iraqi tanks lined up on the Saudi border... ready to invade Saudi Arabia --- and reporters paid for satellite photos of the exact same stretch of desert, at the exact same time stamp, from commercial satellites, and showed that there was nothing there but sand.
The WH had to retract it's claims, but if memory serves, no one lost their jobs over the disinformation.
(For the second Iraq war, the Pentagon first arranged to BUY UP all of the commercial satellite imagery... so that none would be available to the news media except what they chose to release. Now, that was thinking!)
Same with the scam by the Kuwaiti Ambassador's daughter, when she tearfully testified before Congress (under a fake name) about all of those 'infants thrown out of their incubators' in Kuwait. The we all found out that it was a put-up job, a propaganda campaign (cost: $1.5 million, I believe) run by a Washington PR firm hired by the Kuwaiti Royals....
What'sa matter? Were you too young to even read the headlines during the nineties? |
