Commander Guy Delivers Another Scary “al-Qaeda in Iraq” Campfire Story

By Kurt Nimmo

"As Bush, reading once again from a neocon script, this time at the Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, insists “al-Qaeda in Iraq” is a threat not only to the occupation of Iraq but grade schoolers at home, it is useful to revisit Nick Possum. “Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a real Zarqawi. Nobody is willing to tell what really happened to him, but at some point before the invasion of Iraq he vanished from the real world and entered the twilight zone of black operations to become a symbol of evil and a master of disguise. Nowadays he hides out in the CIA complex at Langley, Virginia, a basement in Baghdad’s Green Zone, an office in Kuwait … or maybe all three,” Possum wrote on June 1, 2005......

It appears this nonsense is working—at least a little. According to “recent opinion polls, the president has had some recent success in making a case to voters for continuing the war in Iraq. He has insisted both that success is possible and that failure would be catastrophic, in part because Al Qaeda in Iraq might then turn its attentions elsewhere,” for instance a day care in Killdeer, North Dakota......

The military’s propaganda program, according to the Washington Post, was “largely been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. ’strategic communications’ in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the ‘home audience’ as one of six major targets of the American side of the war…. An internal document produced by U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, states that ‘the Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date,’” Michel Chossudovsky notes. “Counterterrorism and war propaganda are intertwined. The propaganda apparatus feeds disinformation into the news chain. The objective is to present the terror groups as “enemies of America.” responsible for countless atrocities in Iraq and around the World. The underlying objective is to galvanize public opinion in support of America’s Middle East war agenda.”......."