Just another day in pentagonpropagandaland....
Is it asking too much to at least get our money's worth from the career disinformationists who our tax dollars so lavishly employ? I realize things are tough over there, but how about some pride in workmanship, you guys and gals in the Green Zone?
A Baghdad dispatch from CNN shows that U.S. military press releases covering two different guerrilla attacks separated by more than a week contained exactly the same quote. One conclusion: either the Iraqi citizen "who preferred not to be identified" was a staffer reading from a script, or he simply doesn't exist.
Judge for yourself.
(more below the fold)
The Pentagon press release on the latest lethal event, which hit an Iraqi recruiting office (ISF = Iraqi Security Forces) contained this quote:
Sunday's [July 24] news release said: "'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified."
Eleven days earlier, a Pentagon press release contained this quote:
The July 13 news release said: "'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. 'They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists.'"
I say the truth takes "several" more hits here, because the feckless incompetence or dishonesty, or both, evident in such Green Zone editorial practices has the effect of undermining
each of these official statements.
Where does a fella go around here to find a better grade of propaganda?