Operation Swarmer is a complete hoax....

[BlooInBloo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4817762.stm

http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/2006/03/operation_overblown.php

It's all just one big propoganda campaign... sigh...

[walldude]

1. My ass is really starting to itch from all the smoke

that's getting blown up it...

[Lerkfish]

2. was there ever any doubt?

[BlooInBloo]

10. Even if they live in a fantasy world....

... it's just the sheer SCALE of the fiction that astonishes me here.

So much stuff REALLY had to happen in order to pull off this work of fiction - it's rather mind-boggling - even for republicans.

[Nutmegger]

3. It really struck me as odd that it was during the day and not at night

Not surprised.:eyes:

[neverforget]

29. Me too. and the video of all the choppers taking off makes for good

televsion.....

[underpants]

4. Wow it is official now

:nuke:

[izzybeans]

5. *woof* *woof* *wag* *wag* Yadda Yadda Yadda

Meanwhile the debt ceiling has been lifted, insurance rules are changing, among other pick pocket-like events.

The irony is, the biggest source of the budget deficit was just on display. Millions of dollars in resources employed to round up rural farmers and a few firecrackers. Tax cuts smax cuts I want my money back from the assholes making this type of decision.

[tridim]

6. The net result.. Emboldened insurgents

A typical BushCo phuckup.

[LSK]

7. K & R

[C_U_L8R]

8. It seems the Freepers fell for it big time

They're having a massive circle jerk over the photo-op props.

Maybe they just like to wank it.

The wankers !

[John Q. Citizen]

11. Have you popped their bubble yet? Could be loads of fun.....n/t

[C_U_L8R]

19. oh i can't post there

but maybe we have superdupersecret agents in our midst who can.

on the other hand... it may be more fun just to watch em frolic in their ignorant bliss for a bit longer.

The freep. A primitive beast pitifully heading for self-extinction.

[izzybeans]

12. They've sizzled many a keyboard over the deaths of innocent

woman and children.

[BOSSHOG]

9. Would that make bush dean swormer??

And all the news out of iraq is on triple super secret probation. Our kids are dying and the president is nothing but a very bad joke.

[LSK]

13. AAR News is still treating it like a real deal...

[BOSSHOG]

14. Would that make bush dean swormer??

And all the news out of iraq is on triple super secret probation. Our kids are dying and the president is nothing but a very bad joke.

[dchill]

15. "complete hoax"

Never thought otherwise. The past three years of "Iraq War" has been a complete hoax. A dangerous and destructive hoax.

[truebrit71]

16. What a joke...

...:eyes:

[Greeby]

17. Sorry Georgie, you're gonna need a bigger catapult

:eyes:

[stillcool]

18. this isn't just "PSYOPS Leakage"

this is major catapulting the propaganda....they need Stephen Soderbergh.

But the massive press coverage was not just the result of a semantic misunderstanding.
Unusually, high-quality photographs and video footage of the initial deployment were made available to the press towards the end of Day One of what was billed as a campaign that would last several days. Some international media were given unusually swift military "embeds" to the area.

[AllegroRondo]

20. I KNEW it sounded funny

<<In US military parlance, "air assault" means transporting troops into a combat zone by air. It could include, but does not necessarily imply, air strikes. >>


Basically, they moved about 40 helicopters full of soldiers into Samarra.

[coalition_unwilling]

21. That video sequence of the choppers (endlessly replayed)

conjured up visions of Apocalypse Now, when my wife and I were watching TV news last night. This morning, they showed explosions at night time, which again reminded me of Captain Willard's (the Charlie Sheen character) stop on the river during the nighttime firefight.

In Vietnam, these types of helicopter assaults happened constantly but VietCong and NVA had good enough intelligence that they could choose when to evade and when to put up a fight (Ap Bac). I suspect that, in the case of Swarmer, resistance made discretion the better part of valor. But make no mistake -- if this becomes an on-going tactical practice by U.S. forces, at some point there will be a really nasty firefight, a la Black Hawk Down.

[Jim Warren]

24. Rummy thinks of himself as a Valkyrie. n/t

[Jim Warren]

22. Ya know, I'm really thankful for the internet (while it lasts)

otherwise this shit of theirs might work once in a while.

[BlooInBloo]

23. Wouldn't surprise me if this gets known as the moment where....

... bush "jumped the shark" - even with his supporters...

His don Quixote-ness is on clear and blatant display for everyone to see now...

[fooj]

25. From what I heard yesterday... many at the Pentagon

were completely unaware of it. What a lying, treasonous rat bastard.

Peace.

[catmandu57]

26. Made for tv

propaganda for the masses at a time that the chimp* needed a boost, like everything else this will blow up and blow back, and we're the ones who will feel it.

[BlooInBloo]

27. Shameless kick...

... cuz I think this is important...

[Just Me]

28. A means of distracting from losing numbers, losing wars, losing,...

,...support, losing control. Yes? Just put out something that gives the appearance of winning (something, whatever it is).

[Disturbed]

32. A grand little show for the world of the US Military...

in glorious action along with that fab Iraqi Army.

[Roland99]

30. I AGREE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=686424&mesg_id=686424

[BlooInBloo]

34. Ack! My bad :(

I can't search, and it wasn't on the front page... Sorry for the dupe...

[Roland99]

35. No worries. At least we know we are far from alone in seeing the

dog and pony show for what it was!!

[Neil Lisst]

31. Oh, absolutely a hoax! Completely contrived for domestic consumption!

Even for Bush and Rove, this one was most transparent.

[Justice Is Comin]

33. Why do you think

they didn't allow any reporters to be embedded on the joy ride.