crazy story student told me about Iraq confirmed in Jeremy Scahill's BLACKWATER

I have returning vets from time to time in my community college English classes. I asked one guy what he did over and he said he was in psyops. He said their job was to drive around blaring insults and blasphemy over loudspeakers so guys would get mad and run out at them, and the troops could then kill them.

This sounded nuts to me because apart from killing people, you might be making more enemies by driving around insulting their religion at rock concert volume.

Then a few minutes ago in Jeremy Scahill's BLACKWATER, I read that this exact tactic was used in the first seige of Fallujah after the Blackwater contractors were killed.


This is one of many things that have happened in the war that make you wonder if the Bushies were not just incompetent, but intentionally courting war instead of trying to "pacify" the country. A similar one was when interrogators at Abu Ghraib would tell prisoners they were Israeli Mossad. Whether it was true or not, it would serve no purpose to say so except to piss off the guy you are interrogating, and if you later letter him go, piss off everyone he talks to.

are too far fetched to be true turn out to be completely true.

it.

I've caught Scahill on Amy Goodman's show and want to read his book.

God, it sounds like we've imported the Klan to Iraq. :(

Good god.

--there's no way in hell that I believe that "Sunnis" bombed the Golden Mosque just as the two sides were uniting to throw out the invaders.

I'm pretty sure I've read this is a tactic they use.

And as far as their objectives go, it's always been to destabilize the Middle East. Organized, unified countries can better act in their own best interests. Best to keep them fighting among themselves.



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agreed to a cease fire... I wonder if they are joining forces for now to get the US occupiers out and sort the rest out later.

And then yesterday through the paris debacle and other things, 26 killed... who knows how many wounded, they don't say that anymore.

I wonder if there is a connection, especially when the govt is drafting legislation to kick us out.

Instead the Bullshit Media System portrays the endless carnage as sectarian strife. In a sense that is true: we are one of the sects, and we are doing the vast majority of the killing.

a black guy who worked across the street wanted to fight him, but Richard did what they didn't expect and went right across the street to ask the guy. It turned out his white co-workers were telling him the same thing. Eventually, they decided to fight just to get the white guys off their backs, but once they started, they realized they couldn't get away with just faking it, so they gave each other a real pounding.

of the 4 mercenaries what their family members were doing when they were torn apart and burned. This seems like a foregone conclusion. Have you seen in the Favorites: Blackwater to sue the families to shut them up? Hell, now it's easy to see why. One more piece of the puzzle supplied by a DU poster.

and keepin' your ears open, yerbud.

What a wonderful career he's had. :sarcasm:

and shoot anyone who bites?

That's messed up.

This level of blatant idiocy is exasperating beyond words. :banghead:

that is just stupid, I wonder how many troops have been killed because of that.