Bush launches magazine to teach young Arabs to love America

So what if George Bush is threatening to invade your country? At least the kids in America have nice, white teeth and listen to the same music as you. Isn't that enough for you to love the good 'ol US of A?

That, at least, appears to be the message of a glossy new magazine published by the Bush administration and going on sale across the Middle East this week, targeting young people with a mix of features, celebrity profiles and music. The Arabic-language Hi magazine is US propaganda 2003-style. "We're fighting a war of ideas as much as a war on terror," said Tucker Eskew, director of the White House's Office of Global Communications.

Hi, a monthly, will be available for the equivalent of around $2 (£1.25) in Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Algeria, Egypt, Cyprus and several Gulf states. Saudi Arabia - home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 11 September and where drug dealers are publicly beheaded - has not yet been deemed ready to get Hi.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=425328

Good Lord. This is terrifying.

He's trying to recreate the Hitler Youth in a nation whom we beat up.

US agencies have been promoting the country overseas for decades; I think the State Department has usually been responsible. But since Vietnam, it has been illegal to publish this propaganda inside the territorial US (so the American public/voters will not be influenced by it).

If I remember correctly, there has been a certain amount of controversy over the White House Office of Global Communications. I think this is the first time the White House has gone into the overseas PR business directly.

And Shrub is the first to have put this operation fully in the hands of PR-advertising people, like Charlotte Beers.

Poppy Bush and his minions also relied on similar tactics at times...

<snip> “I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns. They took the babies out of the incubators … and left the children to die on the cold floor,” said Nayirah, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl to a public hearing of Congress’ Human Rights Caucus on Oct. 10, 1990. According to the Caucus, her full name was being kept confidential to protect her family in occupied Kuwait.

Her written testimony was passed out in a media kit prepared by Citizens for a Free Kuwait, a group that promoted support for military action against Iraq.

Videotaped portions of the girl’s testimony were used on the NBC Nightly News and eventually reached a total audience of 35 million, according to the Columbia Journalism Review. Prior to 1990, many Americans had never heard of Kuwait. In addition, former President Bush mentioned Nayirah’s story “six times in one month” as a reason for firm action against Iraq, according to Douglas Kellner, author of “The Persian Gulf TV War.” The U.N. Security Council allowed Citizens for a Free Kuwait to bring in several “eyewitnesses” to testify to atrocities they had witnessed in Kuwait. Two days later, the council set the Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq’s withdrawal from Kuwait.

The rest is Gulf War history.

In January 1992, Leslie Fruman of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and John R. MacArthur of Harper’s Magazine, revealed that Nayirah was not a hospital volunteer, as she had claimed, but rather a member of the Kuwaiti royal family and the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States.

The girl’s coached testimony was the centerpiece of a $10.8 million campaign orchestrated by PR firm Hill & Knowlton for Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which also included organizing “National Free Kuwait Day” rallies at universities across the country, providing footage to the U.S. media, thousands of press kits, and media training workshops, according to papers filed with the Department of Justice. </snip>
Source: Spinning War

There's a chapter of "Toxic Sludge is Good for you! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry" (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995) online entitled "The Selling of the Gulf War" which is a very interesting read. Lots of dot connections and patterns we're seeing repeated today.

Saudi Arabia - home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 11 September and where drug dealers are publicly beheaded - has not yet been deemed ready to get Hi.

remember this?

http://web.archive.org/web/20020118162454/http://jfkii.com/

n/m

I remember that the 107th Congress was terrorized by anthrax, yet Tommy the man who sold the world Thompson ordered his staff to take Cipro BEFORE the attack. Then he had to brag about his negotiating skills with BAYER to innocent US Postal employees in a fucking hot zone, some that died.

But, that's just the way I see it, unlike his eugenicist pal Charles Murray.

remember who?

i meant 7th

and a lot of fear that allowed passage in the night without debate of some quick legislation that my Senator couldn't believe wouldn't even get consideration of debate.

But that's just my take on things. That's another reason why I support the only candidate that is on record for repeal of PATRIOT ACT.
http://www.kucinich.us/
Unelectable? Senator Feingold would be a great VP possibility IMO.
Dennis has got a lot of support in WI, a Kucinich/Feingold ticket would truly be good for US after this administration is removed.

Never mind then.

vaccines?
Let's get real here. We aren't talking about reptilian shapeshifters.
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/storm_warnings/poison.html

When the CIA starts leaking-it's a good start from good people that aren't in ops., IMO.

they could ride on the coattails of this propaganda mag and REALLY appeal to the young over in the Arab world with a grass roots effort. LOL.

They brainwashed the American public, what makes you think they could'nt do it to arabs????

"He loved Big Brother"

Neil Bush?

McConnel's (R-KY) Daughter Center of Controversy (Student abuse)

Claire McConnell, the daugh-ter of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R- Ky., was accused of strapping one child into a chair with a leather belt, tying the hands of others and taping shut the mouths of some elementary school students, the Albany Times Union reported yesterday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=21411&mesg_id=21411&listing_type=search