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2005-11-18 Iraq

Headaches Running Terrorist Organizations in Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-18 09:45|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And thus the propaganda war should take hold with the remaining. Old tactic but it works.

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-11-18 10:12|| 2005-11-18 10:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Fuckin A, so we're finding out this ain't an ideaological war for the Sunnis it's a good old fashioned greed grab.

Excellent, this bodes well for counterinsurgency activities and success!

Hoorah!

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-11-18 12:01|| 2005-11-18 12:01|| Front Page Top

#3 ARMYGUY, we could use that propaganda war over here. :P Here's my take: "No news is good news," BUT there's two ways to read MSM news trends on Iraq:

#1 "good news is no news" (sensationalism)
#2 "US military forces' success is so much the norm as to be un-newsworthy"

Twistedly, the latter kinda correlates with operations "so secret that successes never come to light, only failures." Does this rationale for the imbalance of news make sense, however perverse?

Oh, and StrategyPage already discussed the de facto limit of the American people for wars as being about 3 years.

P.S. Wonder if public "amnesty for the low-level wonks" if followed through (read: not rescinded once in custody) could be part of the propaganda war, break the connection between the big shot who "has the goods on lots of his troops" and them... sever THAT motivation to remain loyal.

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