Iraq propaganda program legal: Pentagon report

[Barrett808]

Iraq propaganda program legal: Pentagon report
By Kristin Roberts
Wed Oct 25, 10:13 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military acted legally when it hired a contractor to pay Iraqi news organizations to run pro-American stories, the Pentagon's inspector general has found.

An unclassified summary of results of the inspector general's probe, released on Thursday, said:

"We concluded that the Multi-National Force-Iraq and Multi-National Corps-Iraq complied with applicable laws and regulations in their use of a contractor to conduct Psychological Operations and their use of newspapers as a way to disseminate information."

The controversial propaganda program was made public in a Los Angeles Times report in November.

Early this year, the Pentagon confirmed that troops in an "information operations" task force were writing articles with positive messages about the mission in Iraq that were translated into Arabic and given to Iraqi newspapers to print in return for money.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061025/pl_nm/iraq_usa_propaganda_dc

[bullimiami]

1. alberto gonzales said torture is legal too so forgive me if i dont trust

the 'inspector general' of the PENTAGON regarding the PENTAGONS behavior and its legality.

[ck4829]

2. And this resulted from the Pentagon investigating the Pentagon?

[Trillo]

3. Our whole world seems composed of "Psychological Operations"

From birth to death, we seem controlled by others' minds. It's too bad those minds care more for deception than truth.

I think the hunter-gatherer era was likely kinder to us humans.

[ronnie624]

4. Don't worry.

Our species will return to that era soon enough - if we survive the toxic soup we're making of the biosphere.

[Trillo]

5. OT: about that toxic soup

Imagining earth without any people
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100

Estimates of how many years civilization's constructs and pollution will take to dissipate.

[ronnie624]

6. Thank you very much for the link. n/t