U.S. occupation forces launch media offensive to counter reports on Iraqi

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. occupation forces launch media offensive to counter reports on Iraqi resistance
By Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press, 11/19/2003 02:20

WASHINGTON (AP) As American troops step up their attacks on Iraqi resistance, U.S. occupation officials also are launching a media offensive under pressure from the White House to do a better job promoting the military campaign against insurgents.

Part of the idea is to give the American public a better sense that U.S. troops are on the offensive and not just passively facing daily, deadly attacks from Iraqi guerrillas.

In effect, the idea is to return to the type of briefing operations that occurred during the war's major combat phase, defense officials said Tuesday. That included daily briefings, by high-level officers, who explained daily military missions in some detail at U.S. Central Command war headquarters in neighboring Qatar, with video hookups for reporters in the Pentagon.

U.S. occupation authorities notorious for their poor press operations now offer briefings during the day and night in Baghdad, the capital. That means they reach audiences in the United States as well as the European and Middle East time zones.

In what one Pentagon official called going on the offensive, military public affairs officers also began last week flooding reporters in Washington and Baghdad with press releases on everything from commando raids and weapons seizures to the capture of Iraqi insurgents and reconstruction efforts. (snip/...)

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/323/wash/U_S_occupation_forces_launch_m:.shtml

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Cool the Five O'Clock Follies are back!

All is sunny and happy in downtown Saigon,

We have done all to advance the cause of democracy and freedom
in Vietnam

Gee golly I truly missed the Five O'Clock Follies...

:evilgrin:

[saigon68]

5. THE FIVE O'CLOCK FOLLIES

A couple of accounts of yesterday's action.

Today's, updated body count.

A side bar on how good the WAR was going.

Then adjournment, dinner and drinks at the Caravelle Hotel.

Ah the good old days.

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Talk about dumb & dumber. Let's tell them how much we care while

we bulldoze their houses privatize all their services & steal their oil.

Yes this sounds like a plan.

[tom_paine]

3. Hee hee...it's all so Soviet

Not really a laughing matter, I suppose, except to note that the Busheviks behave SOOOO MUCH like the Commies they profess to hate, up to and including their "media strategies".

"Comrades, toilet paper production is up 600%. Pay no attention to the occasional line outside the grocery, it is lies spread by our enemies, you enemies, the enemies of Soviet Freedom".

This bullshit is not going to fool anyone, except perhaps the Imperial Subjects of Amerika but they (we) stopped deserving the freedom we are losing a long time ago.

[Mal]

4. 'Media Offensive'

explains for me the bombing of 'suspected insurgent positions', ie, random bombings of bits of scenery the US decides it doesn't like. It's not targeted at the Resistance, it's targeted at the American citizen, to make him feel that something's being done, the US is fighting back, and they're going to win this.
After all, an American citizen is an American voter.

[teryang]

6. It's called a DUMPEX

What's the target?

We're not sure. It's a suspected target.

What's supposed to be there? Looks like a bunch of trees.

Doesn't matter. Just drop on those coordinates. Come back rearm and drop on it again.

What about bomb damage assessment? Want photographs?

No. Don't bother, you won't see anything there.