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[[Still no news about the massacres of Iraqis, or Palestinians, on TV]]

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Life at the front no picnic for GIs
Jul. 28, 2003 12:00 AM

Brett Hunt, a 2nd lieutenant with the Army's 11th Signal Brigade and a
Globe native, sent this note to his parents a week ago. His unit is north of
Baghdad.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0728militaryletter1.html

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U.S. Soldiers Reportedly Escape From Iraq
Sunday, July 27 2003 @ 11:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 9114
http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20030727115721898

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EM'S PEOPLE!

EMINEM is 'more truthful' than PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH, according to a new
survey.
http://www.nme.com/news/105678.htm

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Terms of engagement
Herewith, definitions to keep on top of current events
By ERIC MARGOLIS
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_jul27.html

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Sheryl McCarthy: 'Can't people see the emperor's pants on fire?'
Posted on Monday, July 28 @ 10:06:07 EDT
By Sheryl McCarthy, Newsday
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=12414&mode=nested&order=0

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TBRNews--

Controlling the News, update (leaked media memos; don't take it all at
face value, e.g., the reference to Syria and Russia)

(July 12) We forsee problems in some of our coverage of the Iraq business.
Until fairly recently, the public support has been fairly strong for the
President?????????s actions. Our own poll results showed that the President
enjoyed a solid 52% national support (although the agreed figures were closer to
65%) Now, with the prolonged and escalating Iraqi resistance and growing
questions about Bush?????????s State of the Union speech and the glaring errors
contained in it, it is very evident that other media elements are beginning to
raise questions. We have known for some time that Tenet would take the
blame for the glaring forged documents the President used to whip up a panic
and gain public support for his determination to attack and occupy Iraq. We
have a copy of the December, 2002 memo from the White House to the DCI
concerning documentation of Iraqi WMD. Quote: The President feels that it is
vital to have supportive material concerning known Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction. You are requested to search your files for anything that would
support this important thesis endquote. It was well-known inside our circles
and the Beltway that the reports of Nigerian uranium sales to Iraq were
hopeless frauds. These faked reports were duly sent over to the White House
with a cover letter, a copy of which we also have in our files, to the effect
that this report was the only one that addressed the President?????????s request
but also contained a specific warning that its authenticity was quote
dubious at best and therefore could not be supported by other evidence endquote

As pressure on the President ratchets up over these faked papers, it is
obvious that he is going to find a fall guy for his slipping reputation. Our
sources indicate that Tenet (and others) will be reprimanded in public but
praised in private. He will in all probability not be given the sack
because, quite simply, George T knows where the bodies are buried. The best way
to cover this is to be strictly neutral in comment and we must now maintain
a completely neutral position in all of this. If Bush has the same problems
Nixon did over Watergate, we cannot be seen by our viewers as being
blindly partisan. We have to have plausible deniability in this. The NYT is now
beginning to crack the wall of silence surrounding the Presidency and as
they are the bellweather, best to watch them closely.

(July 13) The figures given out about a 3 billion monthly bill for the
Iraq occupation and ?????????pacification????????? is going to blow up in the
Administration?????????s face.(More like 5 billion a month!) The Democrats have been in
disarray because they feel that by attacking the wartime President, they can be
accused of disloyalty to the American people?????????The major disaster for the
White House is that they cannot get oil out of Iraq. The plan always was to
root out Saddam, occupy the country after securing the oil fields first and
then put a CIA trained and controlled local governments into place. This
puppet governments (let?????????s face it gentlemen, that is what it would be but
we can call it Iraqi autonomy) would graciously grant to the US the right
to protect their oil resources and assist them in recovering their
pre-Desert Storm production levels. In fact, the Iraqis would get none of the
proceeds of the oil sales?????????The President and his top men, including Rumsfeld,
were fully warned by both the CIA and MI that there was a very strong
probability that internal unrest in Iraq could tie the US up for years, not months
but as we know, the White House has always listened to a different
drummer?????????The Administration is over a barrel on this because if they try to make
too many scapegoats, someone will let the cat out of the bag over who
really knew what and what kind of specific warnings the White House had actually
received?????????the same scenario as the 9-11 warnings?????????.It?????????s strongly
suspected that the Russians know exactly where Saddam is but will never tell
us?????????Bush has refused to allow any Iraqi oil resources to flow into Russia and
has also refused to pay off Saddam?????????s bills with Russia. The President
hates Putin, calling him a quote KGB thug endquote. The President is
certainly a good hater!

(July 14) Happy talk at the Pentagon about a universal draft is fading
away. No chance of this disaster even being broached and it should not be
mentioned at all. It is doubtful that the White House will touch this one
now?????????There is a growing fear in counter intelligence circles that if the
resistance movement in Iraq is not stopped, the resulting very bad PR might cause
an ?????????incident????????? somewhere in the US just before election time to whip
the voters up to vote for Bush as a ?????????wartime leader????????? who can put a number
of draconian laws and edicts in place to ?????????protect the American
people.????????? Someone in the FBI said to one of our people, entirely off the record,
that quote it will probably be the Statue of Liberty endquote. There must be
no speculation on this subject under any circumstances. If some rigged
incident does happen and we comment on it in advance, new regulations could
cause us serious problems ?????????If this happens, it will be Rumsfeld who plans
and executes it. This will give the President the usual deniability. It is
more than likely that we will get some advance notice of such an action and
then decisions can be made relative to going to the public. On one hand, it
would be a magnificent media coup guaranteeing ratings off the chart and on
the other, a death sentence?????????

(July 17) The White House is now moving into a bunker mentality, very much
like Nixon during the end of the Watergate business. With mounting Iraqi
opposition and facing a very capable guerrilla movement, supplied by Syria
and Russia, the US has run into the stone wall we all predicted. His
personality will not permit the President to withdraw in good order; the neocons
and the oil people will simply not let him. Bush is stuck between the rock
and the proverbial hard place?????????serious growing unrest in the troops coupled
with very low morale, growing death tolls, lack of rotation, real fear of
being fatally attacked are all leading to a situation that our Pentagon
source informs us could actually erupt into open mutiny. Couple all of this
with the terrible economy, the insistence of the Bush people on insane tax
cuts (to help out corporate America), the obvious right wing political and
religious fanatics supporting the President and we have the makings of
serious, probably fatal, domestic problems. The fear is that a frantic
Administration could connive at some kind of domestic terrorism if and when they
perceive the President slumping badly in the polls. He already is and it looks
like it might go like the economy. Today, a 65% favorite; tomorrow matching
Davis????????? 20%.

( July 20) We have to sit on stories of serious physical abuse of Iraqi
citizens. Most sensitive (and we put the blackout on this subject) are the
numerous rapes and sexual assaults against Iraqis. Interesting are the
unreported but fully known homosexual rapes?????????the real problem here is that US GI
minorities are mostly responsible for these and Bush needs these votes in
November so on with the lid?????????we don?????????t think they can keep this shut up
for too long?????????the Okinawa syndrome all over again.

(July 21) Blair may well fall from power as a result of the growing anger
in the UK?????????as usual, Bush has blamed the CIA for the yellowcake nonsense
and now that Tenent is fighting back with strategic leaks, he is blaming his
only real ally, Britain?????????the same problem Bush has with
everyone?????????promise everything, deliver nothing. Sound bites followed by forgetfulness. This
is going to cause serious internal problems in Mexico when the PRI realizes
that Fox won?????????t get support from Bush. The President does not realize
that there is a ready-made war on our southern border?????????best part is that the
troops won?????????t have so far to go this time?????????.plans to activate the
National Guards and send them off to Iraq to relieve the serious morale crisis in
our troops there will certainly backfire. The weekend warriors are a
military comic routine and would be sliced to pieces by grinning Iraqi
guerrillas. When they start sending young convenience store managers home in rubber
bags with their genitals cut off, there will be hell to pay in Middle
America?????????

• HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN IN AMERICA? — K. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Mon Jul 28 19:06