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. RE: Bodies? What Bodies? |