Jim Devine wrote:
Bush proposed an alternative: paint a U.S. spy plane in United
Nations colors and see if that didn't tempt Hussein's forces to shoot
at it. In any case, he said, the war was "penciled in" for March 10
and the United States would go ahead with or without a second U.N.
resolution.
Blair replied that he was "solidly with" the president.<
why didn't they try the tried & true method of having Kuwaiti (or
Kurdish or Jordanian) soldiers dressed up as Iraqis attack a radio
station in Kuwait (or Kurdistan or Jordan) to broadcast "Iraqi"
propaganda? It worked well vis-a-vis Czechoslovakia a few years ago...
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You mean they didn't?
Or we just don't know that it occurred...
The same tactics have been used in Africa and Latin America for.... a
long time.
Government soldiers dressed in rebel uniforms kill some Marymount nuns
and blame it on the rebels is
one such event that comes to mind. Grenada was a variation on the theme.
Claim American students
are threatened by Cubans (laborers building an airstrip) and valiantly
"rescue" them.
I've believed (for a loooong time) that American society's
"historical/event oriented amnesia" (hysterical if you would, over
maintaining an unsustainable and untenable life-style...) is
subconciously quite intentional, albeit,
if it is 'subconcious', intentional might be the wrong word.
Leigh
www.leighm.net
http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/
