Courtesy of Rick, here’s a “news bulletin” from Uruknet alleging “In the new Iraq,
US soldiers rape schoolgirls in the daylight”:
From a reader of al moharer.net
March 4, 2006
Informed sources from the city of Mosul ascertained today that the US degraded occupiers would do anything to satisfy their beastly nature and to tune up with their debased culture. The same sources added that three days ago a US occupation tank in the city of Mosul (250 miles north of Baghdad) blocked the way of a school bus carrying some forty Iraqi schoolgirls. The sources explained that two debased US soldiers got into the bus and ordered at gunpoint the school kids in the bus to show their breasts. One US female soldier, the Iraqi bus driver indicated, putting her liberation weapon aside, took off her heavy flak jacket, and exhibited to the terrified school children her sow’s filthy udders.
The same sources from the city of Mosul said also that the children started to yell and some of them passed out while the bus driver was shouting to get some help from the US Occupation appointed police, which wouldn’t move a finger.
The Mosuli sources bitterly complained that the Arab TV channels and Media were informed about this daylight rape and sexual abuse against Iraqi school girls but they wouldn’t say a word because liberty of speech and freedom of Media in the new democratic Iraq, equals under the fascist US Occupation an ascertained death.
Now Arabs! You got it! This is why Egypt’s Mubarak and Saudi traitors of Mecca and Medina allowed the US fascist army to use their territory to attack Iraq and humiliate its Muslim and Arab people, change their religion and convert to Bush the drunkard’s, loot their petrol, steel their identity, destroy their past and future and to finally rape in the daylight, at gun point, the innocent Arab and Muslim Iraqi children and get away with it!
Well, I’m certainly sold on the authenticity of this story. After all, US soldiers lack the discipline necessary to demand the mass exposure of school childrens’ breasts at the threat of gunpoint.
But then, my opinion matters little here. What does matter is that any attempt by the US military / intel community to counter such allegations—say, by placing a counter-story in the Iraqi press that points out that no such offense took place, and that perhaps even provides logistical proof and eyewitness testimony to that effect—is baldfaced US propaganda, and is as vile and unseemly as the Uruknet story itself. It’s all relative, you see.
Except, of course, that we must necessarily be held to a higher “standard”. Because, you see, in order to hold the moral highground, we must refuse to defend ourselves in kind. Sure, soldiers may die as a result of enemy propaganda—but in the long run, we will have shown ourselves to be our enemies’ betters by not forcing the truth into circulation as part of a war time strategy to defeat enemy propaganda.
After all, we hold all the military power. So the least we could do is leave the terrorists with their propaganda advantage. It evens the odds and makes the fight more fair. And that’s what it’s all about.
Kind of like parity in the NFL!
Don’t forget, Jeff, that the left’s shit-flinging at “Bush the drunkard” has no effect whatsoever.
Mmmmm… Sow udders. That should get the feminists upset… yeah?
TW: And thus it came to pass that Michael Jackson was seen in a new tank…
I also have it on good authority (AP reporters) that many Butterfingers were stolen from the starving little children. At gunpoint! In the daylight!
It reads so obviously as made up. I mean, it isn’t very well-crafted propaganda.
Oh, and don’t start with me about parity in the NFL. Yes, I’m a Lions fan……
Rumson Esq. and YGB will be citing this story PDQ.
Hello, found your site while randomly surfing and thought I’d drop in a comment or two. My first impression was that this story was so bizarre as to be beyond laughable. But then I remembered during the war in Afghanistan that female soldiers were used to search female villagers to avoid offending/scandalizing/stirring up a s***-storm if male soldiers searched them. Good idea except the men in the village didn’t believe that they were female because they were also kitted out in full battle gear like their male counterparts. So they “proved” they were women by the most expedient means.
I think this story is ugly spin by the US-haters of a routine search at a US checkpoint of what just happened to be a school bus full of girls. I assume (I don’t know for sure but I assume) that female soldiers are still supposed to search female to avoid any unpleasantness and they still have to prove/show that they are in fact women.
I go into all of this to point out that our enemies are becoming more sophisticated in their propaganda—taking an actual event and painting it in the ugliest possible light—while we still don’t seem to have gotten in the game to counter crap like this.
Reads like something from democraticunderground or Indymedia
Problem is, the administration can’t even promote unspun news that paints our forces in a positive light without being accused by the media as pushing propaganda. How can we possibly win hearts and minds if every effort we make to do so is met with animosity from those who control the means of dispersing the news?
The media need to figure out what side they’re on; but that isn’t entirely accurate. What they need to do is to realize that the world isn’t seeing the battle lines as drawn in the same way they do. Whereas they see themselves as offering a counterweight to the party in power, our enemies just plain seek to weaken our whole country. What they don’t realize is that their skewed reporting and double-standards—which they see as merely undermining a president they don’t support—serve to undermine our country as a whole.
In short, while they’re not exactly colluding with our common enemies, they’re certainly making it a lot harder for us to defeat them.
Make sure they don’t control all the means.
JohnAnnArbor  I guarantee you the MoveOnBots are quoting it by next Friday’s march. Even money a Dem Congressdrone mentions it. I won’t even give odds on Dean, Kerry or Teddy…
Hmmmm.
So does this mean that all that it takes to get someone to really show their tits is to travel around in Iraq wearing a burka?
Hey man I’m in!
And if the ladies want to engage in a little … shall we say … “strip searching” well I’m down with that.
“What does matter is that any attempt by the US military / intel community to counter such allegations…is baldfaced US propaganda…”</blockquote>
“How can we possibly win hearts and minds if every effort we make to do so is met with animosity from those who control the means of dispersing the news?”<blockquote>
The solution to this problem is to create private organizations specifically designed to wage the “information war”. Organizations that are independent of both the government and the liberal media. There are many activist groups that are dedicted to promoting their ideas on a variety of subjects and have been successfull at doing so both at home and abroad. There is no reason why we can’t create groups that are designed to promote the American Experiment and wage the idea war against anti-Americans, Tranzis and jihadists. If we don’t create these kinds of organizations to wage the information war then nothing will change. The liberal media is not going to change, State’s public diplomacy is not going to change. We have to do what Americans do when gov’t and existing private institutions aren’t getting the job done: become entreprenurial, rely on private enterprise and create the kind of organizations that we see are needed. Otherwise we are going to keep having this same conversation next year and the year after that and so on.
Is that article from Commondreams.org?
But is that better than dying from the federal response to Katrina?
Don’t shoot the messenger; I’m just filling in for Actus.
Jeff, for all your carping, you don’t seem to have realized that the Pentagon never stopped paying for the publication of “propaganda.”
From Saturday’s Washington Post:
My comments were meant to be ironic and directed at the vocal opponents of the program, who have launched propaganda campaigns of their own to demonize the program. It wasn’t meant to speak to the current status of the program.
Much like I’ve similarly ironizied the position of NSA program critics, knowing full well the program hasn’t stopped.
Sometimes, the campaign to try to stop the programs is what does the incremental rhetorical harm.
But who cares? You only ever comment when you think you’ve found a “gotcha”—and it generally involves you purposely misreading my posts or intent.
So have it. But I think I’ll just go for a walk with my kid and not join you in your careful parsing of these things meant to uncover my secret, ignorant “carping.”
So the Pentagon’s refusal to yield to the Left’s propaganda meme is evidence of…..what, exactly?
Oh, that’s right [pulls out Kos/AmericaBlog/FireDogLake talking points] We, the American Left, bear no responsibility for any future failure of Bush’s—not America’s, but Bush’s—GWOT strategy, especially with regards to the Iraqi war, because *sniff* those wascally neo-cons didn’t listen to us anyway. [eyes well up with tears] And that horrendous slander that our constant carping and criticism, to the extent that it is founded on willful distortions of the fact base, gives aid and comfort to our enemies—well, to quote Thomas Jefferson – or was it Benjamin Franklin – well, anyway, one of those founding white patriachal slave-owners – “DQOP(c)* and DITHFOP(c)**.”
*Don’t Question Our Patriotism
**Dissent Is The Highest Form Of Patriotism
What power! To be able to subdue a whole busload of pantscrappers with the awesome power of tits! I knew about this power, but have seldom used it myself. I hope Oprah will find this heroine of democracy and book her…maybe she will awe us with her fabolous tit power!