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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (91514)	12/16/2004 12:26:29 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If I discovered that a president that I supported was moving closer and closer to running an authoritarian state and that his government was planning a disinformation campaign, and if I realized that we had invaded another country and killed at least thousands of innocent civilians for our own profit motives, taking many of our soldiers to their deaths and leaving thousands of them severely disabled as well, I think I would change my affiliation. But of course whatever you do is up to you . . . Pentagon mulls value of propaganda Washington, DC, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- High-level U.S. Pentagon officials are locked in classified debate about how far the government should go in using disinformation, the New York Times reported. Already used on the battlefield, critics say such techniques could shatter the Pentagon's credibility, leaving the U.S. public and the world skeptical of anything the Defense Department and military say. Under intense criticism, nearly three years ago, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld closed the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence, a short-lived operation to provide news items, possibly including false ones, to foreign journalists to influence overseas opinion. Pentagon officials involved in the debate say a secret propaganda program could include creating false documents and Web sites translated into Arabic as an effort to discredit and undermine the influence of mosques and religious schools that preach anti-U.S. principles. Suspicions about disinformation programs also arose in the 1980s when the White House was accused of using such a campaign to destabilize Col. Moammar Gadhafi of Libya. washtimes.com