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Bodies? What Bodies?
by Moon Pie at 3:40 pm EST, Dec 2, 2002

The Gulf War was the best managed war in history, from a PR perspective. Interestingly, though an unknown number of Iraqis were killed, buried in trenches and bombed, mostly, no images escaped to US television. At the same time, many US 'smart weapons' appear to have been virtually worthless despite wartime claims of A+ accuracy.
This article also brings to mind an account in the latest Harper's by a Gulf verteran Marine sniper who describes a complete clusterfuck as far as coordination and organization go, resulting in friendly fire casualties, which the military naturally minimized (i.e. lied about).


 
RE: Bodies? What Bodies?
by Reknamorken at 4:24 pm EST, Dec 2, 2002

Moon Pie wrote:
] The Gulf War was the best managed war in history, from a PR
] perspective. Interestingly, though an unknown number of
] Iraqis were killed, buried in trenches and bombed, mostly, no
] images escaped to US television. At the same time, many US
] 'smart weapons' appear to have been virtually worthless
] despite wartime claims of A+ accuracy.
]
] This article also brings to mind an account in the latest
] Harper's by a Gulf verteran Marine sniper who describes a
] complete clusterfuck as far as coordination and organization
] go, resulting in friendly fire casualties, which the military
] naturally minimized (i.e. lied about).

What is mind boggling to me is that this kind of white-washing is an ongoing story, yet the next time something like this happens (read: the recent Afghanistan invasion) your average American citizen believes the crap they are force fed.

It's really simple folks: If someone or something (like the American government/military) lies to you every time that means it's probably going to lie to you in the future.


 
 
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