Propaganda Effort in Iraq a Mistake, Rumsfeld Says

[Judi Lynn]

February 18, 2006

Propaganda Effort in Iraq a Mistake, Rumsfeld Says
The Defense secretary says he ordered the planting of articles to stop after learning of it, although others have said the effort continues.

By Mark Mazzetti, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Friday criticized a U.S. military program that pays Iraqi newspapers to plant stories favorable to the American mission, and mistakenly said the Pentagon had shut down the program shortly after its existence was revealed.

In his most specific comments thus far about the information operations program, — carried out by U.S. troops and a private contractor — Rumsfeld said the U.S. military should not be paying Iraqi media to publish articles, whose origin was concealed even from the news outlets.

He said he had not been initially aware of the clandestine program, and ordered it shut down after news outlets published details of it.

"When we heard about it, we said, 'Gee, that's not what we ought to be doing,' " Rumsfeld said Friday during a taped interview on PBS' "The Charlie Rose Show."
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-infowar18feb18,0,3643918.story?coll=la-news-a_section

[applegrove]

1. Those poor souls in Iraq have been living propaganda for two

generations. D'ya think they don't know it when they see it?

[Auntie Bush]

4. Yet bush* asked for more money to do the same thing in Iran. If anyone

believes he isn't doing the same thing here...lookie here...I
have a bridge..........

[saltpoint]

2. Gee willikers! Maybe we should put a stop to dropping megaton

bombs onto unarmed civilian populations and then lying about it.

I mean, Gee Willikers.

[Tom Joad]

3. How about that propaganda effort in Kentucky, Wyo, California....

[fshrink]

6. Works like a charm there!

[tabasco]

5. mistakenly said = lied about

If Rumsfeld isn't lying, he is saying something stupid.

"We know exactly where they (WMDs)are. North, south, west, and somewhat east of Tikrit."

"General Shinseki's plan has an absurd number of troops."

[0007]

7. Ronald Rumsfeld is crazy.

And this photo of him makes a good case for his insanity.

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.": Aldous Huxley -(1894-1963) Author

[LynnTheDem]

8. Oh yeah rummy didn't know the propaganda was being catapulted my ass.

Gee no one could have known...

:eyes:

Fuck off.

[rodeodance]

9. but he also said the other day that we need MORE propaganda!

[rodeodance]

10. he is just upset he did not know--and want CONTROL of propaganda.

[DemonFighterLives]

11. He looks just like a groundhog or gopher

Crawl back in your hole vermin!
I'm tired of your slog.