Americans use Iraqi TV to get their message across

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/February/focusoniraq_February98.xml§ion=focusoniraq

KIRKUK, Iraq - A US general smiles for the cameras. Behind him, under a banner reading “The New Iraqi Future”, happy people release doves of peace into the air.

Unfortunately for the US military, this is not quite reality—at least not yet. It is local television in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

The US general is real enough. He is Brigadier General Alan Gayhart, commander of the 116th Battle Combat Team which controls this ethnically mixed area of northern Iraq.

But the people, the banner and the doves are painted on a wooden backdrop in a television studio. snip

As the calls came in, US soldiers, rifles at the ready, paced the studio floor, stepping over camera cables and trying not to make a noise. Once the credits had rolled, Gayhart was whisked away in a waiting car to the safety of a nearby airbase.

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[LinuxInsurgent]

1. hmmm...were have i seen this before

Great Citizens of Chechnya...your Soviet Armed Forces salute you...a great prosperous day is upon you....the day of the New Socialist Man...today, Comrade Lenin has introduced us to a new way of thinking...a new way which will improve our lives and perfect our humanity....BOOM!!!!!!

Ehem..ehem...Please...great citizens of Chechnya...pay no attention to that sound...it is but the sound of capitalist oppression falling at the glorious feet of Comrade Lenin....

(whispers to the production man) - Can you get the insurgents to tone it down...i'm trying to do propaganda over here....

[Mika]

7. Baghdad Bush's "Mission accomplished" is more like it. n/t

[karynnj]

2. The painting of people

would stay perfectly still - why even bother with a fake backdrop. Maybe next time they can use puppets - at least they move!
How stupid do we think Iraqis are?

[leftchick]

5. As stupid as faux news watching ameriKans apparently...

sadly they are wrong again!

[Spazito]

3. And this 'show' is different from other dictatorial governments

exactly how? These fools are neophytes in the propaganda sphere. The Iraqis have dealt with experts, their history is full of tin pot dictators. They can recognize propaganda better than the US public can.

[LinuxInsurgent]

4. ain't that the truth...

and we call ourselves "civilized" over here.

[Rex]

6. Happy Happy Joy Joy!! Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Bomby Bomby Blam Blam!! :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[paineinthearse]

8. See WMD - weapons of mass distraction - documentary film.

I've posted twice about it, it's on the board somewhere.

The media war.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Propaganda 101 and we can't even do it right!