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Army targeted U.S. senators with psy-ops
MSNBC ^
| 24th February 2011
| staff reporter
Posted on 02/24/2011 10:04:42 AM PST by Daffynition
The U.S. army reportedly deployed a specialized "psychological operations" team to help convince American legislators to boost funding and troop numbers for the war in Afghanistan.
Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops, ordered the operation, Rolling Stone Magazine reported in a story published late on Wednesday.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: psyops
To: Daffynition
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:06:17 AM PST
by
unkus
To: Daffynition
Wish they’d used psyops to dissuade them from repealing DADT.
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:07:19 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: Daffynition
And they employed their pysch-ops super-secret weapons, Powerpoint and a laser pointer.
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:09:37 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: Daffynition
“General Serling, sir, we are prepared to advance into the Twilight Zone!”
To: skeeter
For Congress they probably deployed booze and hookers.
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:19:04 AM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Daffynition
Another total waste of taxpayer money!
We’re talking about CONGRESS here!
Everyone knows that the subject of such an operation needs a brain for psy-ops to work!
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:20:00 AM PST
by
Roccus
(Who knows?........Who cares?........Why bother?)
To: Daffynition
More fodder for the paranoid. As if they needed it.
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:24:13 AM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
To: Daffynition
...Rolling Stone Magazine reported...Words fail me.
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:26:36 AM PST
by
sima_yi
( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
To: ASA Vet; BIGLOOK; LonePalm
There goes the Army again, changing history.:)
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:27:59 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
To: Daffynition
Isn’t that what would normally be called “dirty liar politics”?
To: Daffynition
The operation failed.
It required subjects with functioning brains.
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:29:41 AM PST
by
ZULU
(No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
To: Daffynition
OH MY GOD! Oh my God! OH MY GOD!
The Army launched an effort to lobby effectively for what it believed it needed to function?
OH MY GOD!
Oh the huge manatees...
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posted on
02/24/2011 10:55:04 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Here's the proof of Obama's U. S. citizenship: " " Good enough for our 3 branches...)
To: DoughtyOne
“Oh the huge manatees...”
right on!
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posted on
02/24/2011 11:19:11 AM PST
by
John Galt's cousin
(Principled Conservatism NOW! * * * * * * * * * * Repeal the 17th Amendment!)
To: the invisib1e hand
fear the Power of Persuasion
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posted on
02/24/2011 11:50:27 AM PST
by
kaboom
To: Roccus
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posted on
02/24/2011 5:34:59 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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