Real live government propaganda!
May. 13th, 2004 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusI recently found out about the White House "Tales of Saddam's Brutality" web site!
Among the horrors listed there are descriptions of people being mistreated (as in beaten, and made to stand on a box with electrodes attached to them) in Abu Ghraid prison. Hm.... that sounds familiar.
Several photos and description of a "mass grave" are provided as proof of Saddam's evilness. It is interesting to note, however, that each mass grave looks like it originates "around 1991". Considering that we had recently carpet-bombed large sections of Baghdad, and completely obliterated some of the smaller villages with our bombers, I'm not entirely sure these deaths can all be blamed on Saddam Hussein's executions of political prisoners.
Strangely, they have no mention of current conditions in Abu Ghraib in their Liberation Update! section. Nor do they have any quotes from the thousands who are waiting to hear whether their "disappeared" family members are still alive or being tortured, or any mention of the four cities that the Iraqis have so far managed to take back from U.S. forces, nor any mention of the mass arrests, or quotes from survivors of any of the unarmed protests that we fired into. And, most strange of all, no quotes at all from any of the mercenaries or any of the Haliburton shareholders, who are the real winners in this whole thing...
But, as a futile exercise in propaganda, done by a bunch of incompetents, the web site is indeed very interesting....
Oh yeah, and I especially love how they use the word "Tales", with it's connotation of a Story That Was Made Up, to describe their quotes...
Not that I would ever suggest such a thing, but wouldn't it be a fun trick if someone hacked the Whitehouse "Photos of Freedom" section to put up some of the more recent photos from Iraq being circulated around the net?
Among the horrors listed there are descriptions of people being mistreated (as in beaten, and made to stand on a box with electrodes attached to them) in Abu Ghraid prison. Hm.... that sounds familiar.
Several photos and description of a "mass grave" are provided as proof of Saddam's evilness. It is interesting to note, however, that each mass grave looks like it originates "around 1991". Considering that we had recently carpet-bombed large sections of Baghdad, and completely obliterated some of the smaller villages with our bombers, I'm not entirely sure these deaths can all be blamed on Saddam Hussein's executions of political prisoners.
Strangely, they have no mention of current conditions in Abu Ghraib in their Liberation Update! section. Nor do they have any quotes from the thousands who are waiting to hear whether their "disappeared" family members are still alive or being tortured, or any mention of the four cities that the Iraqis have so far managed to take back from U.S. forces, nor any mention of the mass arrests, or quotes from survivors of any of the unarmed protests that we fired into. And, most strange of all, no quotes at all from any of the mercenaries or any of the Haliburton shareholders, who are the real winners in this whole thing...
But, as a futile exercise in propaganda, done by a bunch of incompetents, the web site is indeed very interesting....
Oh yeah, and I especially love how they use the word "Tales", with it's connotation of a Story That Was Made Up, to describe their quotes...
Not that I would ever suggest such a thing, but wouldn't it be a fun trick if someone hacked the Whitehouse "Photos of Freedom" section to put up some of the more recent photos from Iraq being circulated around the net?
