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"Thebzp" |
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14 Apr 2007 11:52:45 PM |
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Neocon War Propaganda To Be Investigated |
Neocon War Propaganda To Be Investigated
Will panel investigate all the lies, foul play, deaths and cover ups
surrounding the Tillman and Lynch cases or will it be another whitewash?
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, April 13, 2007
A U.S. House committee has announced it will hold hearings to
investigate misleading military statements that followed the friendly
fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pfc. Jessica
Lynch in Iraq.
As reported by the Associated Press, the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform said an April 24 hearing will be part of its
investigation into whether there was a strategy to mislead the public.
It will "examine why inaccurate accounts of these two incidents were
disseminated, the sources and motivations for the accounts, and whether
the appropriate administration officials have been held accountable,''
the panel said on its Web site.
The House Armed Services Committee also is considering Tillman hearings,
a spokeswoman for that panel said Monday.
The Tillman and Lynch cases are two clear and blatant examples of how
the government has consistently lied to the public about events during
both the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq, often spinning situations and
distorting reality in order to put the US military occupations in a
better light.
We have covered both cases extensively and exposed the propaganda and
the cover ups that have followed, now it seems, rather encouragingly,
that some within the House are taking an interest in uncovering the
truth and exposing the lies perpetrated by the Neocon White House war
machine.
The Lynch case is well documented. In 2003 facing flack and extreme
criticism the Bush administration orchestrated a clear piece of war
propaganda in an effort to rally the people behind the troops and the
Invasion of Iraq.
In April 2003 the US Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company took a
wrong turning near Nassiriya and was ambushed by Iraqi soldiers. Nine of
Lynch's US comrades were killed. The Iraqis took Lynch to the local
hospital, where she was kept for eight days.
The Iraqi soldiers fled the hospital days before Lynch's rescuers
stormed it. The doctors there, having already tried and failed to return
Lynch to the Americans after they fired upon an ambulance which she was
being transported in, described the "rescue" as a Hollywood show, as
special forces stormed in with cameras rolling.
"It was like a Hollywood film. They cried, 'Go, go, go', with guns and
blanks and the sound of explosions. They made a show - an action movie
like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan, with jumping and shouting,
breaking down doors." one doctor later recounted.
First, a U.S. military spokesman in Iraq was ordered by CENTCOM to tell
journalists that soldiers exchanged fire during the Rambo like rescue,
without adding that Iraqi soldiers had already abandoned the hospital,
then the military released a green-tinted night-vision film of the
mission, adding to the drama.
Releasing its five-minute film to the networks, the Pentagon then
claimed that Lynch had stab and bullet wounds, and that she had been
slapped about on her hospital bed, interrogated and possibly even raped.
Then news organizations began repeating reports that Lynch had
heroically resisted capture, emptying her gun as she fired at her attackers.
But subsequent disclosures have proved all those details to be complete
fabrications. Lynch was badly injured by the crash of her vehicle, her
weapon jammed before she could fire, the Iraqi doctors made friends with
her and treated her kindly, and the hospital was already in friendly
hands when her rescuers arrived.
Asked by the ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer after the event if the
military's portrayal of the rescue bothered her, Lynch said: "Yeah, it
does. It does that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff.
Yeah, it's wrong," ......
http://infowars.net/articles/april2007/130407Propaganda.htm
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| User: "Docky Wocky" |
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| Title: Re: Neocon War Propaganda To Be Investigated |
14 Apr 2007 11:34:44 PM |
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Investigate...investigated...hearings...examine...all buzzwords for liberal
Democratics waste of time and money.
What ever happened to the liberal Democratics party election promises? Did
they win in 2006 by telling everyone they were
going to spend the next 2 years investigating, or doing the nation's
business?
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| User: "bowman" |
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| Title: Re: Neocon War Propaganda To Be Investigated |
15 Apr 2007 12:31:19 AM |
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Docky Wocky wrote:
Investigate...investigated...hearings...examine...all buzzwords for
liberal Democratics waste of time and money.
Can you say 'semen stained dress'? I seem to recall Republicans are fond of
investigations and hearings, too.
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| User: "Goldstein" |
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| Title: Re: Neocon War Propaganda To Be Investigated |
15 Apr 2007 07:37:00 PM |
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On Apr 14, 11:34 pm, "Docky Wocky" <mrch...@lst.net> wrote:
Investigate...investigated...hearings...examine...all buzzwords for liberal
Democratics waste of time and money.
What ever happened to the liberal Democratics party election promises? Did
they win in 2006 by telling everyone they were
going to spend the next 2 years investigating, or doing the nation's
business?
They said that they would investigate and defund the war. I wonder
when all the anti-war propaganda will be investigated for all the
distortions and omissions as well as how encourages the insurgents to
keep fighting.
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