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Skriven 2004-10-02 03:21:13 av Steve Asher (3:800/432.0)
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Ärende: Shortage of plastic trinkets
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Looks like the Pentagon has run short of plastic trinkets
to entertain the gullible liberal US public - plastic turkeys,
"drones of death" made of balsa wood & duct tape with whipper-
snipper motors, "mobile biological warfare labs", vials of
"anthrax" etc etc. (Not to mention "good news" stories -
staged photo-ops like "Saving Private Milli Vanilli",
"MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"[tm] etc).

As the blue touch-paper to a conflagration that can be marketed
as Armageddon continues to burn, & the reports from Iraq show
a deteriorating situation, the Pentagon wants more "uplifting 
accounts" & restrictions on reports that reflect the truth.

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posted September 30, 2004, updated 10:00 a.m.

Pentagon wants 'uplifting accounts' about Iraq

Administration wants upbeat reports, will 'curtail' bad news about Iraq.

by Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

Thursday morning in Baghdad multiple car bombs and rocket attacks
killed at least 40 people, including many children and several US
soldiers. The Bush administration, The Washington Post reports
Thursday, worried that negative stories like these are dominating the
news headlines during an election period, has decided to send out Iraq
Americans to bring what the Defense Department calls "the good news"
about the situation in Iraq to US military bases.

The Post also reports that the administration is moving to "curtail
distribution" of reports that show the situation in Iraq growing
worse. In particular, the US Agency of International Development said
this week that it will "restrict distribution" of a report by its
contractor, Kroll Security International, that showed the number of
attacks by insurgents had been increasingly dramatically over the past
few months. Attacks have risen to 70 a day, up from 40-50, since Iraqi
Prime Minister Alawi took office in June. 

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Full article at Christian Science Monitor ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0930/dailyUpdate.html

Cheers, Steve..

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