To że amerykańska propaganda wojskowa kłamie jak z nut i non stop, to wiadomo.
Łysiak nazwał rzecznika NATO w czasie napaści na Serbie baronem Münchhasenem.
Podobnie jest w Iraku (2 tys. zabitych powastańców
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Tutaj art. z "New York Times" o tym, że w "Pentagonie" sie kłócą jak bardzo można kłamać, żeby nie przesadzić.
www.nytimes.com/2004/12/13/politics/13info.html?ei=1&en=02f26e0247f5d2ab&ex=1103944696&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1102957368-reh5GEcy7DrOrlleDuEscg
The Pentagon is engaged in bitter, high-level debate over how far it can and should go in managing or manipulating information to influence opinion abroad, senior Defense Department civilians and military officers say.
Such missions, if approved, could take the deceptive techniques endorsed for use on the battlefield to confuse an adversary and adopt them for covert propaganda campaigns aimed at neutral and even allied nations.
Critics of the proposals say such deceptive missions could shatter the Pentagon's credibility, leaving the American public and a world audience skeptical of anything the Defense Department and military say - a repeat of the credibility gap that roiled America during the Vietnam War.
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Pentagon and military officials directly involved in the debate say that such a secret propaganda program, for example, could include planting news stories in the foreign press or creating false documents and Web sites translated into Arabic as an effort to discredit and undermine the influence of mosques and religious schools that preach anti-American principles.
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During the cold war, American intelligence agencies had journalists on their payrolls or operatives posing as journalists, particularly in Western Europe, with the aim of producing pro-American articles to influence the populations of those countries. But officials say that no one is considering using such tactics now.
