[lit-ideas] Re: Yet another failed propaganda moment
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:30:59 -0400
Why do you not ask, what the hell are we doing over there? Why is no
energy anywhere going into solving this mess? Instead we're outraged that
they're outraged, while we threaten Iran and Al Qaeda ignores us in Iraq.
Are you listening? We have no army left and they're ignoring us,
respectively. And the do nothings are still doing nothing, so busy they
are, collecting their payoffs from industry. Talk about surreal. This is
surreal. I heard a discussion by Chomsky where he argues the U.S. is a
failed state. Nah, not for a minute, right?
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/4/2006 1:56:18 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Yet another failed propaganda moment
>
> Remember the Sesame Street Ernie clumsily photoshopped into
> the Pakistan protest picture of Bin Laden?
>
> If you want to accuse people of planting an image of Jesus
> to mock your Islamic faith, it helps if you have ... an
> image of Jesus.
>
>
> Why is 'Buddy Jesus' in Iraq?
>
> October 2, 2006
> BY QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
> BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi troops backed by American military
> advisers arrested a suspected Shiite militiaman Saturday,
> but a gunbattle at his house left a woman and a girl dead,
> Iraqi police said.
>
> Afterward, angry men at the scene held up a color photo of a
> smiling, winking Jesus giving a "thumbs up" that they said
> was left by troops at the raided house -- an allegation
> denied by U.S. and Iraqi officials.
>
> The photo, known as the "Buddy Christ," is from the movie
> "Dogma," a 1999 religious satire in which "Buddy Christ" is
> part of a church campaign to improve Jesus' image.
>
> U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said the
> photo was a ''rather ridiculous attempt'' to discredit the
> raid. It was unclear how it ended up at the site in
> Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City.
>
> http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/79604,CST-NWS-iraq02.article
>
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