[lit-ideas] Re: Fake war, fake news
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:56:13 -0400
This is a nice symbol for the entire war in Iraq. Campaigning on democracy
being on the march while Iraq had gone down the tubes. Getting elected as
the security president. The whole thing has been a sham from the very
beginning and still is. It's amazing how he can and did get away with it.
> [Original Message]
> From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/14/2005 2:43:40 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Fake war, fake news
>
> The White House found itself at the centre of another public relations
disaster yesterday
> after a Pentagon official was seen coaching a group of handpicked US
troops before a live
> teleconference with President George Bush.
>
> In a cringingly wooden exchange, the group of soldiers stationed in
Saddam Hussein's home
> town of Tikrit told the president exactly what he wanted to hear - that
Iraqis were eager to
> vote on a new constitution this weekend and the country's fledgling
security forces were
> ready to meet the challenge.
>
> But before Mr Bush entered the room Alison Barber, a senior defence
department official,
> went through a list of topics the president would later ask them about.
At her prompting,
> the soldiers, who were displayed on a large video screen in a room of the
Eisenhower
> Building next to the White House, raised their hands when the topic they
were to answer came
> up.
>
> At one point, she said, Mr Bush would ask them specifically, "In the last
10 months, what
> kind of progress have we seen?" before asking who was prepared to answer
the question.
> "Master Sgt Lombardo," one of the soldiers replied...
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1592179,00.html
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
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