50 False News Stories By Bush Propaganda Machine

[callady]

50 False News Stories By Bush Propaganda Machine
A Strategy of Lies: How the White House Fed the Public a Steady Diet of Falsehoods

Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, Ret.) has identified 50 false news stories created and leaked by a secretive White House propaganda apparatus.
Bush administration officials are probably having second thoughts about their decision to play hardball with former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Joe Wilson is a contender. When you play hardball with Joe, you better be prepared to deal with some serious rebound.

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Gardiner's dogged research identified a long list of stories that passed through Rumsfeld's propaganda mill. According to Gardiner, "there were over 50 stories manufactured or at least engineered that distorted the picture of Gulf II for the American and British people." Those stories include:
 
• The link between terrorism, Iraq and 9/11
• Iraqi agents meeting with 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta
• Iraq's possession of chemical and biological weapons.
• Iraq's purchase of nuclear materials from Niger.
• Saddam Hussein's development of nuclear weapons.
• Aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons
• The existence of Iraqi drones, WMD cluster bombs and Scud missiles.
• Iraq's threat to target the US with cyber warfare attacks.
• The rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch.
• The surrender of a 5,000-man Iraqi brigade.
• Iraq executing Coalition POWs.
• Iraqi soldiers dressing in US and UK uniforms to commit atrocities.
• The exact location of WMD facilities
• WMDs moved to Syria.

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[rucky]

1. !

[afdip]

2. great to see this documented . . . .

lots of good work

[callady]

4. And you know this is the short list

This would be a good item to copy and place in a few select locales- Laundromats, Post Offices etc.

[Gyre]

3. Friendly fire

How about the all-star from Arizona who heroically died fighting his squad-mates but who was portrayed as dying from enemy fire and lionized. Pat somebody.

Gyre

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Tillman

[intheflow]

6. Staged toppling of Saddam statue.

* "Mission Accomplished!"
* Flown into Iraq on Thanksgiving for a photo op.

Gosh, there are so many lies and staged shows, this must have been his "Top 50" list. I wonder if DUers could document more than 50...

[NNN0LHI]

7. OK these 50 account for Judith Miller and the NYT. Wheres the rest? n/t

[Roland99]

8. Excellent primer for the uninformed.

[chat_noir]

9. here's a few more

• Al Qaeda'#2 killed
• Al Qaeda'#2 killed
• Al Qaeda'#2 killed

[No Exit]

16. LOL!! And then there's

Al Quaeda's #3 captured... again and again and again...

[lovuian]

10. Oh there have been even more than that!!!

The Aschcroft investigation of Anthrax killing Enquirer guy that had a bunch of hocus pocus in it!!!

[Kazak]

11. It's gotten to the point that...

these are easy to pick out now.

[callady]

12. Put these in Holiday Packages

[omshanti]

13. kicked and nominated. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

14. This 56-page paper was written October 8, 2003. He should redo it

and update with another 200 or 300 more!

[No Exit]

15. Does it include: "They took the babies out of the incubators and left them

on the cold floor to die"? (Claiming Saddam/Baathists had done this.)

That one's been proven false. The woman on TeeVee with that one was actually some high muckety-muck who was paid to say that.

I swear to you, I actually saw (must've been in 2002 or 2003) some "news report" on TV in which they reported that Saddam was torturing/gassing DOGS. Can you say "tabloidesque propaganda"? (I'm sure during that one Frist had his hands in his pockets and was looking at the sky, whistling.)

Going to link to look at full list...

[rman]

18. Witness was daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador in the US

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3589/us-iraq-lie.html

That lie was the final drop to muster just enough popular support in the US to start the 1st Gulf war.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. Alexander Cockburn caught that lie right away, because the woman

said that 200 babies had been taken out of incubators.

He thought that seemed like an awfully large number, so he started calling New York City hospitals to find out how many incubators they had. He learned that there weren't 200 incubators in all Manhattan hospitals put together.

[mom cat]

17. And the press ate them all up!

[rman]

19. Peculiar -

in trying to gather info about this i came across a link to a radio interview with Col. Sam Gardiner.

http://www.earthisland.org/project/newsPage2.cfm?newsID=491&pageID=177&subSiteID=44

http://www.harrisonline.com/audio/listings/samgardiner.htm

The last url is broken and a search for "Gardiner" on that site (Harris Online) turns up nothing. The interview was in 2003 but the site's archives for '02 and '03 are absent.

[progressoid]

20. Tip of the iceberg. eom

[reprehensor]

21. This is based on the report 'Truth From These Podia'

Truth From These Podia Just under 5mb.

"A new report by a retired Air Force Colonel who teachers at the National War College charges the U.S. and Britain relied on information warfare and psychological operations to inform the public in the lead-up and during the invasion of Iraq.

While the fictional aspects of the Jessica Lynch story have been widely reported, the new report by Col. Sam Gardiner suggests the Lynch story was one of only 50 stories that appeared in the U.S. media that was either purposely false or misleading.

Gardiner poses the question: “What was true and who was affected by the non-truth?

He concludes, "Never before have so many stories been created to sell a war. And they probably didn't need it."

* Col. Sam Gardiner, retired Air Force Colonel. He has taught strategy and military operations at the National War College, AirWar College and Naval War College. He was recently a visiting scholar at the Swedish Defense College."

Well worth reading, passing around.

[LondonReign2]

22. Is "British Air Pilot Spots Air Force 1" on the list?

n/t

[Supersedeas]

24. wonders how many of these stories Vicky Clark had her slimy fingers in?

[Uncle Joe]

25. And the granddaddy of them all that put him in power.

The votes in Florida have been counted and recounted.