Listening to: I’m With Stupid - Pet Shop Boys

From Salon. Sidney Blumenthal uses the “same sh!t, different get up” argument. Again, he makes use of some explosive material:

Since the rise of the Iraqi insurgency, U.S. military intelligence had been directed to build up Zarqawi’s profile as its leader through a psychological warfare (”psy-op”) effort. On April 10, the Washington Post reported on internal military documents it obtained about this psy-op: “The documents explicitly list the ‘U.S. Home Audience’ as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.” According to talking points in a 2004 briefing, the goal was: “Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response.” One military intelligence officer involved stated that Zarqawi’s followers were “a very small part of the actual numbers” of insurgents, but this had little bearing on the program. Another officer concluded, “The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date.”

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