Propaganda machine flees US marines

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 10, 2003 | Adrien Jaulmes

[MadIvan]

Now for Tikrit.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

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[KansasCanadian]

A star Italian television presenter, who until a few days ago had been friendly with the former head of the Iraqi press centre, piped up in the same angry tone. "World opinion considers you invaders. What do you say to that?" "I haven't seen the television for a long while," said Col McCoy. "We had to fight hard to get here. But we have seen people cheering our entry into Baghdad."

The soldier is a class act. He could have pointed to the cheering throng outside the door and said: "Do you think the Iraqi people see us as invaders, B*tch?"

[wimpycat]

A star Italian television presenter, who until a few days ago had been friendly with the former head of the Iraqi press centre, piped up in the same angry tone. "World opinion considers you invaders. What do you say to that?"

You know, with some people you just can't win. As an American, I've accepted that. It's part of being an American. But still, it never ceases to amaze me.

[xJones]

The great battle of "Saddamgrad" predicted by the regime had not occurred.

I know I'm a naive American, but the amount of hot air and BS that comes out of Arabs and then.........nothing, is amazing.

[SwinneySwitch]

From another thread:

"We discovered that all what the (Iraqi) information minister was saying was all lies," said Ali Hassan, a government employee in Cairo, Egypt. "Now no one believes Al-Jazeera anymore."

[thatdewd]

The last people to resist were young Islamic volunteers, not the regime's elite.

"palestinians", not Iraqis IMHO.

[eddie willers]

Instead of the apocalypse predicted in months of Iraqi television propaganda, former officials stared in astonishment at the huge marines, in round spectacles, standing in the hotel lobby, with their pink cheeks, American twangs and outsized assault rifles

That's got to have been a shock...
I wish I had seen it.

[WOSG]

Right, you cant win in some arenas.

the same press that feeds lies and anti-American rubbish then demands US to cater the public opinions that they shape.

What is cool is how this media control act just doesnt work when faced with reality. NO amount of media bias and lies can whitewash the pictures of jubilant iraqis and a liberated Iraq.

All these media whiners have to fall back on is 'shock and awe' looks. Just like election night 2002 etc.

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[Yo-Yo]

What is cool is how this media control act just doesnt work when faced with reality.

I don't know who's idea it was, but the entire embedded reporter program was a brilliant stroke. Remember, Iraq, the Truth will set you free.

[Happygal]

More used to repressing their own people than infantry combat, they had fled

Like playground bullies. Cowards from birth till death. I just hope their consciences haunt them in old age, and they ROT in hell when they die.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Great article. Thank you MadIvan for the post, and thanks to the families of your brave British soldiers.

[republicangel]

It was Victoria Clark's idea-

[DensaMensa]

}"We have come to make sure everybody is safe," said the captain, in an American accent so strong it attracted everyone's attention.

A Great line! Right out of an American Western movie, spoken by the guy in the white hat.

[Chirodoc]

"Even after the rest of the administration had ceased to function, the Palestine still housed the Iraqi propaganda machine and the information minister, Mohammed Said al-Sahaf."

He lives! Lets get him in front of a camera. I'm starting to miss him, no one else could make me laugh like he did during these three weeks.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

We call that Sh!+ talking around here

[strela]

Col McCoy, who has just led his marines across half of Iraq in less than three weeks ... followed the manager up the stairs to his office ... he removed his helmet, and took a long draught from a bottle of mineral water offered him by the manager.

A careless mistake. We're still at war with these people, and the bad guys aren't all dressed alike.