Hadley: Pentagon Propaganda In Iraq Continues
Hadley: Pentagon Propaganda In Iraq Continues
On Sunday’s ABC This Week, Stephen Hadley acknowledged that President Bush has not yet ordered the shut-down of the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign in Iraq.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Has he ordered the program shut down?
HADLEY: He’s asked Secretary Rumsfeld to look at it. It’s clear from the comments that have been made so far, that the issue is whether that program is something that’s inconsistent with the policy guidance. And if it is inconsistent with policy guidance it will be shut down.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, it would be inconsistent to secretly pay Iraqi journalists, wouldn’t it?
HADLEY: Look, we want a free media. We want truth. That’s the whole point of this. We need to get the story about what’s happening out. The truthful story about what’s happening to Iraq to Iraqis, to the American people. That’s what we ought to be doing. This kind of practices is inconsistent with that. It’s not the kind of policy that the, that the Americans want to pursue.
The dishonest tactics used by the Penatgon in the campaign are already well established: the source of the stories (the U.S. military) were kept secret, “absolute truth was not an essential element” in the stories, and the AP and Reuters photos used in the stories did not necessarily depict the events described. This seems inconsistent with any type of “truthful story” the United States is trying to tell.
When will Bush to live up to his rhetoric and shut down the program?
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And the natural result: when a positive story appears in an Iraqi paper, it will be discounted as one probably paid for by the Army, and the writer of the story will be targeted as being an employee of the Army, and the end result will be that fewer positive stories appear, and those that do are ignored. What a mess.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:10 pmWHAT?? “We want a free media”….so we’ll pay them? Am I missing something, or is that the most contradictable two statements/inferences this Admin has stated?
“asked SoD to look at it”?? What, are we supposed to believe the military’s point man doesn’t know? Are f#cking stupid do they they think we are? Yeah, i’m sure he’ll “look into it”…and decide to continue.
God I hate these men.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:21 pmBush’s administration is all Photo ops to create their own reality. Truth has nothing to do with his administration’s creation of their reality.
Truth is only found in the reality based community. As the White House aid said, “By the time the Reality Based Community discovers the truth we here will have created our own reality.”
Bush has nothing to do with the truth. Truth is for moral people.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:36 pmI am confused. All of the Bush administration defenders said that every word in these planted articles were the truth. You are saying they lied?
December 5th, 2005 at 12:44 pmToo bad this is a “Faith based” administration. I’d rather have a “Fact based” administration. We’d stand a much better chance of getting a little reality out of our leadership.
Here’s what “Faith based” leadership gives you. And do you for a moment believe what she’s saying?
“US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted that terror suspects are flown abroad for interrogation, but denied they were tortured…”
[ from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4499648.stm ]
Say what??? Talk about propaganda. It’s being used on our own citizenry!!!
December 5th, 2005 at 12:47 pmOw, whiplash.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:58 pmCliche, but the ends always justify the means with these folks. Unfortunately, democracy requires paying attention to process — process which leads to the end of a free people. These guys have it all backwards.
December 5th, 2005 at 1:10 pmbut denied they were tortured. ???????????
December 5th, 2005 at 1:14 pmisnt there proof of torture going on now?
moahahahaha
how convenient to forget so suddenly of al arub.
I saw this tool on 3 new shows yesterday morning (FOX, ABC, CNN), and had a hard time believing anything he said…I swear he is one of these trolls, every time he was asked a question he ignored it and stuck to the talking points (like a good little boy)…also, I was also distirubed by his mannerisms, when he squinted his eyes and pursed his face – they jsut didn’t seem natural
December 5th, 2005 at 1:14 pmHADLEY: “Look, we want a free media. We want truth.”
The American people should start lining up these people in the US Government, Republican or Democrat, and start shooting!
December 5th, 2005 at 1:16 pmA video clip of the exchange can be found here – http://dissent.blogspot.com/2005/12/hadley-and-murtha-on-iraq.html
December 5th, 2005 at 1:29 pmProbably a well-executed lie by Hadley, he’s a good roleplayer. One wonders if he hates himself … anyways:
“It’s not the kind of policy that the, that the Americans want to pursue.”
He stumbles. He becomes self-aware for a second, then he repeats to buy time and recover. This is a subconcious reaction. While he repeats he does things such as reminding himself not to do a freudian slip and form the word ‘administration’ as opposed to saying ‘American’ and remembering the correct, agreed upon wording of his statement.
Are any actual people fooled by this crap?
December 5th, 2005 at 2:02 pmGWB claims to be a born-again Christian. Why, then, does he have such a hard time telling the truth? Does he even believe what he is saying? No one else does (except for his fundamentalist believers).
gwb
December 5th, 2005 at 2:18 pmSo, this is the trail of the lies that started a war, beginning at the White House, and via Dick Cheney moving upstream to the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, under Wolfowitz and Feith, then from OSP to a parallel group operating out of Ariel Sharon’s office in Israel.
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Funny that a guy who eats up counterpunch and Justin “Homo” Raimondo’s garbage talks about a trail of lies.
December 5th, 2005 at 2:31 pmThe unsolved Kennedy murders are proof alone that there is an organization so powerful, so organized that one man said you must speak in a whisper in condemnation of it. The world banking system and not just the puppets should be on trial for they have funded the deaths of children and brought agonizing sorrows to countless billions for over the last 200 years. And still they stand alone stronger than ever. They have promoted wars and allow governments to destroy innocent peoples and countries but I and many more know that crazy and power hungry wannabe the slick tongue devil looks after his own. The people at the helm of the all or nothing are nothing world order are nothin short short of being mixed political nuts. They are the greatest of all actors and are more cunning then a gypsy. Some have the highest I.Q. and social skills and are articulate and most stealthy enough to deflect almost any bombardment of incoming truths that would take down a lessor man, a person with a conscience. These selected images of genius are borderline psycho insane. Pure and simple. Like most madmen history provides solid gaurantee’s that they will alway’s fall upon their own swords of conquest. The flames of hell will be their reward {that goes for you too Pat Robertson and other false christians of your ilk that the bible warned us about so long ago} and the worms of Hades will suck on their souls forever. But politicians much like the lowly maggot has a job to do as my Granddad so often told me they have to clean up all the filth and rotting bloated flesh they create or the world would be one huge pus bucket.
December 5th, 2005 at 2:47 pm“He’s asked Secretary Rumsfeld to look at it.”
Well, so much for the propaganda going away.
December 5th, 2005 at 3:08 pmSo ironic. Trying to play “positive stories”. Then they state they did these stories to promote good things in Iraq and in addition anonymously, supposedly to protect the writers and the papers who publish the stories from being bombed. Well, they just as good as cooked their collective goose, should say the whole flock. Now the terrorists can locate those positive story-publishing papers and blow them up. Hadley says he’ll “look into it” yeah right, he’ll bend over and stick his head back in where the sun don’t shine. That’s a good place to look.
December 5th, 2005 at 3:24 pmAND, remember what has happened in the past when Bush was “very concerned” about something. (Hurricane Katrina.) – Very little.
December 5th, 2005 at 3:27 pmHADLEY: Look, we want a free media. We want truth. That’s the whole point of this. We need to get the story about what’s happening out. The truthful story about what’s happening to Iraq to Iraqis, to the American people. That’s what we ought to be doing. This kind of practices is inconsistent with that. It’s not the kind of policy that the, that the Americans want to pursue.
Meanwhile Contractors Like Aegis, are STARTING problems by Indiscriminately SHOOTING at people driving to Work or to Market, perhaps to pick up their Child? And YOU Wonder WHY the IRAQIs and The Americans are getting quite insulted?
December 5th, 2005 at 3:46 pmi wish these bully creeps would stay in their own reality and not come out so the rest of us sane, respectful, honest and hardworking americans can get on with their real lives.
December 5th, 2005 at 3:55 pmfamily values/faith based policy.. this is what you get
- US journalists bought and paid for
- foreign journalists bought and paid for
- outsourcing state department responsibilities
- outsourcing us military duties
- no contract bids for war efforts
- torture of pows
- secret prisons
- outing of cia agents
- power plays during a category 5 hurricane
- secret meetings about us energy policy
- contrived reasons for war
- photo ops
- privatizing of social security
- inadequate equipment for GIs
and those are off the top of my head
makes me yearn for the days of travel office problems/ whitewater fishing trips/ and of course extra marital sex
December 5th, 2005 at 4:10 pmI don’t believe that anything near the outrageous defenses and excuses given by this detestable cabal in the White House would ever pass without challenge from the news media nor from the congress if they were not in control of everything powerful in this nation.
December 5th, 2005 at 4:40 pm#29, No talk necessary, plunger, just let’s get them out of the White House.
December 5th, 2005 at 4:50 pmThe DoD did not just pay press outlets to run stories without disclosing the military’s role; the stories also contained lies about who was writing them. For example:
December 5th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Devlin, #31 — Nice example.
December 5th, 2005 at 5:41 pmBetween Fox news, all the journalists apparently in bed with the administration, and the attempt to “balance” public broadcasting, our media is full of administration propaganda. Why on earth would we expect truthful and independent media in Iraq?
December 5th, 2005 at 5:41 pmMore anti-war propaganda from the Filthiest of the Filthy Left:
(SAN ANTONIO) — Saying the “idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong,” Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted today that the Democratic Party will come together on a proposal to withdraw National Guard and Reserve troops immediately, and all US forces within two years.
Dean made his comments in an interview on WOAI Radio in San Antonio.
“I’ve seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam.
Yep, it’s a lot like Vietnam except that the useful idiots/Enemy Within were not the leaders of the Democratic Party. Now they are. One hopefully two differences though. In Vietnam we didn’t win, the Filthy Left won that one. We will this time. And two; we didn’t hang the traitors like Fonda and Kerry. Hopefully this time we will.
December 5th, 2005 at 6:30 pmBush Poisoning Iraqi Media Against Insurgency, Democrats
The old right-wing canard about having to pick up a Baghdad paper to read something positive about the war has proved as bogus and contrived as the reasons for invading Iraq in the first place.
Suspicious over reports of actual progress in Iraq, the Los Angeles Times launched an investigation and was shocked to discover that the Pentagon had been paying the Iraqi media to publish articles that “while factually correct, presented a positive view of the conditions in Iraqâ€. As they descended further down the rabbit hole, the Times learned that many of the planted reports were penned by U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, most of whom don’t even have journalism degrees and therefore cannot accurately describe the pointless futility of an illegal and immoral war for oil. According to the Times, the stories would often “praise the efforts of U.S. and Iraqi troops, denounce terrorism and promote the country’s reconstruction effortsâ€, a total contradiction what the Los Angeles Times has been printing for over two years.
I guess this will put to rest the radical right’s constant attacks on the integrity of the mainstream press. Say what you will about the New York Times, but you certainly couldn’t pay the Old Gray Lady to write anything positive about the troops.
http://blamebush.typepad.com/
Sad but funny.
December 5th, 2005 at 6:56 pmIs this the same group that gave us Pfc Jessica Lynch & Pat Tillman?
December 5th, 2005 at 9:27 pmIn fact, beneath the surface of mass-media discourse, there are strong indications that the U.S. military command will intensify its bombardment of Iraq while reducing the presence of American occupying troops before the U.S. congressional elections next fall. With the White House eager to show progress toward U.S. disengagement from Iraq, we should expect enormous media spin to accompany any pullout of troops in 2006.
“The American air war inside Iraq today is perhaps the most significant — and underreported — aspect of the fight against the insurgency,” Hersh’s New Yorker article observed. The magnitude of the U.S. bombing is a mystery in American media coverage relying on what’s spoon-fed by the Pentagon. “The military authorities in Baghdad and Washington do not provide the press with a daily accounting of missions that Air Force, Navy, and Marine units fly or of the tonnage they drop, as was routinely done during the Vietnam War.”
LOOK OUT FOR MORE BUSHCO PROPCO!
December 5th, 2005 at 9:32 pmSay what you will about the New York Times, but you certainly couldn’t pay the Old Gray Lady to write anything positive about the troops
December 5th, 2005 at 9:32 pmThe Old Gray Lady wouldn’t be Judith Miller I hope?
Check this
VERY RECENTLY 12-1-05
RELEASED
SIGINT
PROPAGANDA OUT
Hey that Kinda reminds me Of TODAY! -Aj
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/press20051201.htm
Washington, D.C., 1 December 2005 – The largest U.S. intelligence agency, the National Security Agency, today declassified over 140 formerly top secret documents — histories, chronologies, signals intelligence [SIGINT] reports, and oral history interviews — on the August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. Included in the release is a controversial article by Agency historian Robert J. Hanyok on SIGINT and the Tonkin Gulf which confirms what historians have long argued: that there was no second attack on U.S. ships in Tonkin on August 4, 1964. According to National Security Archive research fellow John Prados, “the American people have long deserved to know the full truth about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The National Security Agency is to be commended for releasing this piece of the puzzle. The parallels between the faulty intelligence on Tonkin Gulf and the manipulated intelligence used to justify the Iraq War make it all the more worthwhile to re-examine the events of August 1964 in light of new evidence.”
PThe gray old lady isnt that WHom MAnn Coltrane (or someone like her?) Calls the OLD ARAB?
December 5th, 2005 at 10:18 pmWhen is the IMPEACHMENT Proceedings Going to Start?
December 6th, 2005 at 12:28 pmAmerica can Wait NO Longer!
No Fair Peeking
December 10, 2005
Bush’s secret backyard fence is crumbling as the international Red Cross demanding to visit detainees in “undisclosed locations.†International Red Cross President Jakob Kellenberger has been pushing the U.S. for access to all detainees. Although the Red Cross had visit detainees in Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq access to secret U.S. detainees in Europe were denied. The excuse is that U.S. has the authority to say no, stating that members of al-Qaeda are not cover by the Geneva Convention. All this begs the question: Has the overall revelation of detainee abuse convince the U.S. that rendering the Geneva Conventions “quaint” is the source of our government’s discontent in its widespread abuse at U.S. prisons? The answer is yes. Although the Geneva Conventions, signed and ratified by the United States to protect those involved in international armed conflicts a January 2002 memorandum issued by the Bush administration claims the war on terrorism renders obsolete Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning of al Qaeda detainees, exempting them from the Geneva Conventions’ provisions on the legal treatment of prisoners. Thus opened the door for widespread abuse of detainees which Bush would rather have it shut.
December 11th, 2005 at 2:35 amBREAKING NEWS:
ABC/ TIME MAG NEW POLL
7 in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead.
You lost little liberal cowards are on the wrong side of history!
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December 20th, 2005 at 12:49 amI am a European citizen and can only tell you that the attitide towards Bush is getting worst with every day. I mean, this guy has to stop because he is starting to loose support from countries like GB and Spain. In addition these stupid actions are cracking the dollar value and you guys have to do something about it.
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