Iraq's
'Terrorist Death Squads' To Gardiner, the "most serious transformation of language" involved Washington's
directive to refer to Iraq's irregular troops as "terrorist death squads." The order apparently came down on March 25.
Renaming
the Iraqi defenders "terrorists" appears to have been part of the strategic influence campaign since it served to connect
the Iraqi fighters with "one of the major themes of Gulf II -- Iraq = terrorist = 9/11."
Gardiner stressed the role
repetition plays in the "effective implementation of・creating memory in a population" and observed that "this theme
was successful by US opinion polls" that show a majority of US citizens now believe, in the absence of evidence, that Iraq
"was connected" to 9/11. ...
Other sections in this
article --
Ansar al-Salam
Operation TELIC
Salman
Pak
US Lied about Attacks on Iraq's Power Grid
Iraq's
"Dirty Bomb"
American's Heroic Hostage
Chemical Cluster
Bombs
Iraq's Planned Computer Attack on America
Iraqi
Troops in US Uniforms
Iraq's Scud Missiles
Saddam's
Remote-Controlled Drones
Gar Smith is Editor Emeritus of Earth Island Journal, Roving Editor at The-Edge (www.the-edge.org) and co-founder of Environmentalists Against War (www.envirosagainstwar.org).
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