No celebrations in Baghdad square

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3614439.stm

A US soldier removes posters of Moqtada Sadr in Firdus Square

What a difference a year makes. On 9 April 2003, Firdus (Paradise) Square was abuzz with excited Iraqis determined to pull down a vast bronze statue of their dictator.

With American help, the giant bronze edifice was pulled to the ground and the troops looked on as the jubilant crowd beat Saddam's statue with their shoes.

It looked and sounded like liberation.

But 9 April 2004 and the square is empty.

The statue has been replaced by a modern sculpture plastered with pictures of the radical young cleric Moqtada Sadr, leader of the Shia militants.

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[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Ah, the bitter irony of that.

US still tearing down images of Iraqis "we" don't like.

[DrWeird]

2. Only the first celebration was fake.

nt

[montana_hazeleyes]

3. They hate us for

our ugly,green "modern sculptures".

[brainoverload]

4. LOL

[saigon68]

5. Hypocrits

That picture of that G.I is in every Arab newspaper in the middle east---and the stories aren't pretty.

[mike1963]

7. A crusade is a crusade, is a crusade.........

ad nauseum...

[Karenina]

6. Hmmm...

Americans ripping down images of "the BAD other." Super. I can only wonder what this soldier "thinks" he's accomplishing. Most likely he was simply "ordered" to do it. Too bad that his American "education" precludes him asking the question.

[Robbien]

8. Wonder what media event Bremer had planned for today at that square

Which would have been replayed over and over and over again in our "news" shows.

At least we were spared that farce.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. The joke is April 9, 2003 the square was mostly empty then too,

aside from Chalabi's hired hands gathered around the statue and captured in close up and narrowly cropped press photos and TV news clips. The wide angle photos seen on the internet put the lie to the media propaganda that this was a spontaneous event with large masses of people gathering around and organizing the toppling of the statue on their own.

Brainwashing America
by Dr. Norman Livergood.

In an earlier article, I reviewed the varied aspects of personality profiling and simulation. While serving as Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the U.S. Army War College, 1993-1995, I conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and brainwashing. I explored and developed personality simulation systems, an advanced technology used in military war games, FBI profiling, political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:


unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and emotional patterns

these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems

these profiling systems can be used to program and control people

Personality simulation systems are being used to create political campaigns that apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior. TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors. And sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques are being used by the Bush junta to keep American citizens under control.(my emphasis /jc)

http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm