Il nuovo patetico trend di comunicare le perdite Usa. insieme alla notizia del morto giornaliero aggiungono quello dei "ribelli" morti. " è vero ne hanno ammazzato 1 di noi ma ne abbiamo ammazzato 100 di loro". patetico ma per il propio pubblico funziona. 5 Minuti. su indy per esempio non sono mancati gli adepti di Bush che cantavano vittoria dopo la "notizia" degli 85 "terroristi" morti. "la resistenza è finita" dicevano. poi la figura di merda. come si dice, le bugie hanno le gambe corte. è comunque interessante notare come la propaganda si concentri non, su tutto il pubblico, ma sul proprio pubblico. l' importante non è convincere gli altri (non è possibile) ma mantenere fedeli gli adepti.

New Casualty Count Trend
Raed Jarrar, Raed in the Middle


Friday, March 25, 2005


The new pathetic trend of the US adminstation in announcing casualty figures for the US army and their suppoting forces started last week. The official body counts started to include the number of Iraqi resistance fighters, or the insurgents as the bush adminstration call them, in the body counts.

This new trend is not ment to be more sensitive towards the tens of thousands of Iraqis killed by the occupation forces, it is just a way for trying to reduce the effect of the big numbers of casualties in Iraq by putting them in comparison to more numbers of murdered Iraqis.

"It is true they killed 1 soldier, but we killed 100 insurgents", this is the messege the US adminstration is trying to give. As if the war in Iraq is a football game that you should score more to win.

The Bush adminstration doesn't give a damn for neither the tens of thousands of Iraqis, nor the thousands of US citizens killed in the illegal war in Iraq.

One example of this was the story about 11 (Iraqi) soldiers and 85 Iraqi resistance fighters killed in a military training base some days ago. There are more than 5 different reports about what happened < http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&Ite
mID=7521 >.
But over all, the mainstream media described the base as a "Qaeda-Baath" < http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1330495.htm > training camp with many many Arab fighters!! with some pictures to prove the story.


http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200503/r43520_111924.jpg

"It is true they killed 11 of our friends, but we killed 85 of them"

The same base was visited by an AFP reporter some days later. He didn't see a single occupation soldier or supporting forces policmen in more than 10 miles around it, and that he interviewed and saw some dozens of Iraqi fighters staying at the base.

The important update is today's SF-Chronicle piece, No proof for claim Iraq killed 85 rebels < http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/
25/MNGMPBUNP41.DTL >.

How did they know the nationalities of the fighters? how did they know they were arabs if they didn't even find them, if they can't even reach to the camp?

The question is not whether the Bush adminstration and the maninstream media will stop telling us lies, the question is when we will stop believing them.

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