Kids, the word for today is "P-R-O-P-A-G-A-N-D-A"...

[file83]

"Propaganda"

...for example:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could barely speak, but he struggled and tried to get away from American soldiers as he lay dying on a stretcher in the ruins of his hideout.

The U.S. forces recognized his face, and knew they had the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Initially, the U.S. military had said al-Zarqawi was killed outright. But Friday new details emerged of his final moments.

(...)

On Wednesday, the U.S. military tracked him to a house northwest of Baghdad, and blew it up with two 500-pound bombs.

Al-Zarqawi somehow managed to survive the impact of the bombs, weapons so powerful they tore a huge crater in the date palm forest where the house was nestled just outside the town of Baqouba.

Iraqi police reached the scene first, and found the 39-year-old al-Zarqawi alive.

"He mumbled something, but it was indistinguishable and it was very short," Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, spokesman for U.S.-led forces in Iraq, said Friday of the Jordanian-born terrorist's last words.

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That's all for today kids! Have a wonderful weekend. :)

[ariellyn]

1. Thanks Mr. Rogers! n/t

:hi:

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I was surprised by the mention of Zarqawi being on a stretcher.

To me, the pictures of his body looked like he was lying on dirt, not a stretcher. Was I just misinterpreting what I saw, or did they stage the picture to make it look like he was lying in the rubble of the bombed building?

[file83]

3. Of course they staged it. They said they "cleaned" his body...

...and I'm sure as hell they didn't clean it before he was placed on the stretcher. So their Psy-Ops unit probably took artistic license and decided the photo would have greater impact if he was laying in rubble.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. That's pretty much the way my mind was working, but I was

afraid that maybe my tin foil was on a little too tight today.

[hedda_foil]

5. Are they purposefully setting him up as a heroic figure?

So strong he survives two 500 pound bombs that pulverized the house he was in! So determined that even on the brink of death he struggles to escape his captors! So focused he manages to speak before with his dying breath!(a final prayer, perhaps or would an epithet aimed at the unbelievers be more convincing?)

Could it be? It must be! IT'S SUPER ZARQAWI!

WTF????

[paparush]

7. This is why we must REALLY bomb the shit out of them...

simply, just, bombing the shit out of them is not enough. Its inconclusive. We must THOROUGHLY, REPEATEDLY bomb the shit out of them.

[subterranean]

6. Nice Hollywood ending.

[file83]

10. They're making Zarqawi out to be like "Old Yeller" to the insurgents...

:rofl: :wtf:

[savemefromdumbya]

8. Oh....please....

another guy dressed up in fake beard! Bush can do better than this. But aren't the American public SO gullible!

[Doctor_J]

9. When will the TV Movie air?

Will NBC be able to get it up in time for Nov 7? And by the way - Osama who?

[dailykoff]

11. Shut up and drink your Kool-Aid.

And next time wave your flag when you get your cue or you'll be hearing from the DHS.