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A Disinformation Strategy
The Moscow Times ^
| Apr. 3, 2003
| Pavel Felgenhauer
Posted on 04/02/2003 8:07:38 PM PST by presidio9
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posted on
04/02/2003 8:07:39 PM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
>The most outrageous piece of strategic disinformation released last week was that U.S. forward units were out of food and that restocking would take more than a week.
Heheheh. The Operational Pause, a classic.
To: presidio9
If one pierces through the many lies both sides have circulated, the true picture looks like this: The allies have never been truly bogged down.
To: Dialup Llama
Heheheh. The Operational Pause, a classic.And our idiot press lapped it up.
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posted on
04/02/2003 8:15:28 PM PST
by
demlosers
(resetting the record)
To: demlosers
The toughest part was eating all 3 daily MREs while letting the embedded reporter only have one.
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posted on
04/02/2003 8:17:47 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(France: The whore for Babylon)
To: demlosers
And our idiot press lapped it up. And it takes a Russian to point it out for us. I wonder if this paper is translated into French. Or Garafalo.
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posted on
04/02/2003 8:20:19 PM PST
by
presidio9
To: Dialup Llama
"The most outrageous piece of strategic disinformation released last week was that U.S. forward units were out of food and that restocking would take more than a week. Perhaps the intelligence officer who invented that yarn was reading some account of the American Civil War, when food rations arrived by mule." The funniest part being that it was a major focus of CNN, MSNBC, and NY Times coverage for days.
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posted on
04/02/2003 8:25:50 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Today, Baghdad; tomorrow, Damascus; Friday, Beirut. We have all weekend free, who wants to party?)
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To: presidio9
The author get's it! Nice read.
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posted on
04/02/2003 8:28:11 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(Negotiate!! .............(((Blam!.)))........... "Now who else wants to negotiate?")
To: richace
It turned out that way, but from my reading, it seems shock and awe really was the plan until events dictated otherwise.
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posted on
04/02/2003 8:28:24 PM PST
by
kms61
To: presidio9
All last week, the authorities deliberately fed the press and pundits with fake stories of the campaign plan gone wrong So it was the military's fault that all the media claimed we were losing the war?
To: Dialup Llama
I still don't think the reporters heard right. It wasn't Operational Pause but Operation Pause.
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posted on
04/02/2003 8:51:02 PM PST
by
Kadric
To: thoughtomator
/i The funniest part being that it was a major focus of CNN, MSNBC, and NY Times coverage for days. /i
Yeah. It's funny using these bozos to give disinformation to the enemy. It will be a bitter pill to swallow to these leftist media that they helped us win!!
To: presidio9
Oh come on ... there is no way that the hyper-intelligent press, led by such luminaries as The New Yorker's Michael Wolff could have been deceived by the Neanderthals in the military. They are much too sophisticated for that. Why just a few moments ago I saw Michael on CNBC recounting the grueling 24 hour plane ride to Doha, and the long hours devoted to wrangling the truth from CentCom ... surely someone as worldly and erudite could not be a victim of a disinformation campaign based on 2500 year old military tactics.
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posted on
04/02/2003 9:09:35 PM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: kms61; richace
It turned out that way, but from my reading, it seems shock and awe really was the plan until events dictated otherwise. Are you sure? Our forces seem to act like a jazz band. They have objectives they want to reach, but seem to have wide lattitude to improvise when opportunities arise. The Iraqis have a limited repetoire, and have difficulty executing the scores they have practiced.
To: presidio9
The 1993 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Somalia after an unsuccessful encounter in Mogadishu (the story told in the movie "Black Hawk Down") is still very much on everyone's mind. Americans are soft and afraid of close encounters: If more than Mogadishu's 19 soldiers are killed, the American public will press for an end to hostilities. After Sept. 11, this it is not so, but that notion has not yet sunken in. When are these clueless foreigners going to wake up to the fact that we have a New President since 1993??? They keep mis-underestimating W and his strategery!
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posted on
04/02/2003 9:31:20 PM PST
by
WOSG
(Liberate Iraq! God Bless our Troops!)
To: KarlInOhio
LOL.
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posted on
04/02/2003 9:32:29 PM PST
by
WOSG
(Liberate Iraq! God Bless our Troops!)
To: thoughtomator
NO NO NO ... the funniest part is how NYTIMES is the *unwitting* ally of Pentagon disinformation because their kneejerk anti-Bush behavior is so PREDICTABLE!
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posted on
04/02/2003 9:33:34 PM PST
by
WOSG
(Liberate Iraq! God Bless our Troops!)
To: presidio9
The best part of all this was Monday's DOW selloff (200+ pts) on this phony data. This gave agile traders a huge opportunity to grab the best stocks at bargain prices before the midweek blastoff which will continue through week's end.
To: Paleo Conservative
Our forces seem to act like a jazz band. They have objectives they want to reach, but seem to have wide lattitude to improvise when opportunities arise. I like that analogy!
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posted on
04/02/2003 10:09:05 PM PST
by
jennyp
(http://lowcarbshopper.bestmessageboard.com)
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