Former member of the military's "propaganda team" now fights to expose the lies

[JohnyCanuck]

From the Lone Star Iconoclast, Crawford Texas:

Mission of Conscience Accomplished: Battle of Baghdad Cover-up Exposed
Monday, April 30, 2007
By W. Leon Smith, Editor-In-Chief

SNIP

In a time when both military intelligence and public affairs officers seem to be masters of the art of not saying the truth, Captain May, who is a specialist in both areas, is a refreshing breath of candor. In the interview below, the Iconoclast continues to ask probing questions of this former officer, who consistently predicted a disaster if we attacked Iraq from 1992 on, then later, on a mission of conscience, exposed the cover-ups that hid the predicted disaster from the American people.

As a unique way to acknowledge and honor the fallen — and unacknowledged — soldiers in the Battle of Baghdad, Captain May formed Ghost Troop, an independent military cyber-cavalry unit aimed at fighting governmental propaganda — a/k/a info-war. Commanded by Captain May, Ghost Troop consists of current and past high-level military professionals and police veterans with expertise in reading government strategies. As a former member of the "propaganda machine" himself, Captain May has expressed grave concern that the mainstream media, now owned by corporations that are part of the military/industrial complex, are selling the American people a bill of goods about the realities of the Iraq war. (emphasis added /JC)

The interview:

ICONOCLAST: How does it feel to be vindicated in your claims about Jessica Lynch and the Battle of Baghdad?

MAY: I’m ambivalent about it all. During the last four years, I’ve been ridiculed, abused and threatened by just about every level of the military structure, and my sanity has even been questioned — all of this for making the very assertions that are now becoming transparent. I think it’s like the German philosopher Schopenhauer said: In the case of any radical idea, first they ridicule it, then they abuse it, and finally, when it has been proved, they just say, "No big deal," and act like they’ve known all along.

On the one hand, I’m glad that the wall of lies protecting the Bush administration is crumbling; but on the other hand, I’m saddened that it has taken so long, and that there is yet so much left to do. I can’t but wonder how many lives — American and Iraqi — have been unnecessarily lost because the truth of an unnecessary, illegal war has been concealed, and I wonder how many more lives will be lost before the full truth of things is revealed.

ICONOCLAST: What do you think of General David Petraeus, the new commander of our forces in Iraq, who, just this week defended Administration Iraq war plans to Congress?

MAY: Frankly, based on his trying to sell Congress and the American people a bill of goods about a possible favorable outcome in Iraq, I don’t like him. I also don’t like his background. When Petraeus was a two-star, a major general, he was in charge of training Iraqi forces. Remember what a boondoggle that turned out to be! My God, when he was in charge, more flavors of lies were being told about the size and status of Iraqi forces than even the U.S. media could rationalize! But what was clear was that a lot of money was being made by U.S. corporations involved in the training process, and that Petraeus was going along for the ride.

He is, at best, just another Bush puppet general — and at worst, he is a Bush hatchet man.

http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=1386&z=132

[drm604]

1. He claims we nuked Baghdad.

Check out the first paragraph of that article.

CRAWFORD — On April 4, The Iconoclast published an interview with Captain Eric H. May, "Battle of Baghdad Cover-up — Four Years Later." In it, May described reports that a neutron bomb had been used at Baghdad Airport shortly after U.S. forces reached the city, on April 5, 2003, but that the event was covered up by the trumped-up rescue of Private Jessica Lynch.

This guy is claiming that we nuked Baghdad! :wow:

The Iconoclast had an earlier interview with him here: http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=1294&z=123

I think the Battle of Baghdad was emblematic of the whole misadventure in the Middle East. There is nothing that I thought then that I don’t think now has been validated by time. The American public still doesn’t know that there was a Battle of Baghdad because the media-military apparatus constructed the Private Jessica Lynch mess to hold attention.

A book published about the Battle of Baghdad, David Zucchino’s Thunder Run, starts on the morning after the Battle of Baghdad started, mid-way through the battle! It was a propaganda book. The truth is that the battle started April 5, the night that Baghdad Bob said that they had counterattacked us at the Baghdad Airport and there was a sustained fight that went on for several hours. The best evidence that I have from international sources, scientific sources, is that our position was becoming untenable at the Baghdad Airport and we used a neutron warhead, at least one. That is the big secret of Baghdad Airport.

This is either bullshit or an enormous revelation. I wish I knew how to figure out which.