Reply #8: "Halliburton Plant-A-Tree in Baghdad Day"?

[Patsy Stone]

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Don't know if you saw this, but the good news is that the Lincoln Group's propaganda program is legal!

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m21819&l=i&size=1&hd=0 :crazy:

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"An inquiry released today found that Lincoln Group, a US public relations firm, didn't violate military policy by paying Iraqi news outlets to print positive articles. Now, the Pentagon says they want to do a little tinkering to get their efforts out of the spotlight.

"I get the impression that Rumsfeld knows their Iraq propaganda program is going to explode in their faces if they don't cut the Lincoln group off, but I don't think for a moment that either the Pentagon or the White House is abandoning their plans to achieve what they envision as 'information superiority'.

"Rumsfeld spoke recently on the need to control information surrounding their expansive wars. "U.S. military public affairs officers must learn to anticipate news and respond faster, and good public affairs officers should be rewarded with promotions," he said.

"'The Pentagon's propaganda machine still operates mostly eight hours a day, five days a week while the challenges it faces occur 24 hours a day, seven days a week." he lamented. He then complained that the "vast media attention about U.S. abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq outweighed that given to the discovery of "Saddam Hussein's mass graves.'"

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