Larisa Alexandrovna: "I Just Love the Smell of Propaganda in the Morning"

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I have to wonder just how much this photo- op cost us little people, err, taxpayers, and how much of that money could have gone to veterans instead:

"...But contrary to what many television networks erroneously reported, the operation was by no means the largest use of airpower since the start of the war.("Air Assault" is a military term that refers specifically to transporting troops into an area.) In fact, there were no air strikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op. What's more, there were no shots fired at all and the units had met no resistance, said the U.S. and Iraqi commanders."

Link:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1174448,00.html

I also have to wonder just who the reporters on the ground were who managed to fabricate a mission that did not exist and the networks that simply took the "just trust us" word for it again.

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Or are the reporters feeding the networks and papers this nifty ad campaign actually military contractors planting their own nifty stories in the news wire? Because it is not like our military does not do such things abroad. Remember the Rendon Group and paying Iarqi journalists by using them as a proxy so as to be far removed from the smell of propaganda?

The question is, do they do it domestically?

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Much more at the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/i-just-love-the-smell-of-_b_17482.html?view=print

Does it hurt to stare directly into the sun?


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