NYT: Quick Rise for Purveyors of Propaganda in Iraq (Lincoln Group)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/politics/15lincoln.html?hp&ex=1139979600&en=c08a2ef4985c320e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Two years ago, Christian Bailey and Paige Craig were living in a half-renovated Washington group house, with a string of failed startup companies behind them.

Mr. Bailey, a boyish-looking Briton, and Mr. Craig, a chain-smoking former Marine sergeant, then began winning multi-million-dollar contracts with the United States military to produce propaganda in Iraq.

Now their company, Lincoln Group, works out of elegant offices along Pennsylvania Avenue and sponsors polo matches in Virginia horse country. Mr. Bailey recently bought a million-dollar Georgetown row house. Mr. Craig drives a Jaguar and shows up for interviews accompanied by his "director of security," a beefy bodyguard.

The company's rise, though, has been built in part by exaggerated claims about its capabilities and connections, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former Lincoln Group employees and associates, and a review of company documents.

[Rose Siding]

1. The American Dream

Now playing to an audience of diminishing size

[wellst0nev0ter]

2. Why Waste My Time In College?

I can just get rich pulling some half-baked scheme in the Eye-Rack chaos.

[Mnemosyne]

3. I am just stunned to learn there are actually

companies that have to bid on a contract with our government anymore.

Propaganda does take expertise to be effective though, wouldn't want anything less than the best manipulation techniques available.

It sounds as if they have done a great job doing propaganda for their own company. POS's

V

[mitchum]

4. I want my damn money back!

fucking welfare queens