Zsa Zsa Saddam - a ploy of our military psy ops

[donsu]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030818/od_nm/iraq_posters_dc_1

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In a campaign set to start on Monday, U.S. forces plan to put up posters around Saddam's hometown of Tikrit showing his face superimposed on Hollywood heroines and other stars in an attempt to enrage his followers and draw them out.

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"We're going to do something devious with these," said a chuckling Lieutenant-Colonel Steve Russell last week, as he checked out a range of spoof Saddam pictures taken from the Internet (www.worth1000.com).

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One tactic Russell and his team uses is to make themselves the bait. On most nights, Humvees packed with soldiers will drive up and down what has been dubbed "RPG Alley" to try to attract fire from locals armed with rocket-propelled grenades.

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"It's mostly good for troop morale, but if we can put these posters up in Tikrit and the enemy can't take them down, then at least it shows who owns the streets," said Sergeant David Cade, a psychological operations specialist
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our military has gone stark raving mad.

[Capn Sunshine]

1. If this were an anti war novel

It would be unbelieveable.

These guys can't even get enough to DRINK and we're worried about a graffitti war?

Stark raving mad implies there was sanity existing in the first place.
I dunno.
:nuke:

[qb]

2. "Bring 'em on"

This sounds like a REALLY bad idea.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

3. We should follow the lead of our intelligence/propaganda services

These guys are experts, follow their lead. Someone has already suggested we do this to our own tinpot dictator, publish pictures of his face with a woman's body, and smoke his loyalists out of their holes.

[FreeperSlayer]

4. Unreal

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