Summary: Former Army intelligence and public affairs officer Captain May argues that the Bush
League infowar to hide the truth of Iraq's strategic and tactical blunders has sunk us into Middle
Eastern quicksand -- and that the time for getting out is running out.
cover up. We must read between the lines, as if we were intelligence officers working to
understand enemy media -- which is in fact what ours has become in spewing propaganda. We
must understand that catching them in lies is an old story, which only seems new because it
doesn't get told by the media that has been caught again and again.
The Battle of Baghdad (2003): On April 4, 2003, Army and Marine units were poised to encircle
and reduce Baghdad. On the morning of April 5, "Baghdad Bob" said that we had been
counterattacked and suffered heavy losses at the Baghdad Airport -- and he was telling the truth.
The US media/military pros labeled it all a lie, though, then shifted from the real battle to Private
Jessica Lynch for three days. The sham show ended only after hundreds US GI's had died, while
killing thousand Iraqis. It ended with a propaganda pull-down of a Saddam statue in Baghdad,
just to make sure we knew that Saddam had indeed fallen.
The Fight of Fallujah (2004): In April 2004, the Bush League decided to crush the ongoing Sunni
insurgency in its Fallujah stronghold. As the Fight of Fallujah raged, the true dead and wounded
counts of US GI's were again covered up, as was the eventual mission failure. In November
Bush decided to use some of his election "political capital" by evening the score on Fallujah. The
second part of the Fight of Fallujah was as under-covered and covered-up as the first. Its most
notable results were to provide the world with a new Guernica, thus removing any claim we had to
protecting Iraqis.
The Battle of Baghdad (ongoing): Although Israel has held the headlines with its invasion of
Lebanon, there has been a fierce fight in the Iraqi capital, prompting the sending of reinforcements
whose aim is to retake Baghdad. Last weekend the fighting was intense, and even the cover-up
media expressed condolences for the US dead (while hiding their numbers). They even
complained that the Israeli attack on civilians in Qana seemed to be getting all the attention,
instead of US actions and losses around the Iraqi capital. Cynics argue that the reason for the
egregious Israeli attack on Qana was to give media something to help the uncomfortable issue of
another Battle of Baghdad. Dozens of dead Lebanese civilians held the headlines this time quite
as well as Private Jessica held them last time.
Infowar Insanity
America has been set up to exert itself without feeling the pain of it. The normal information
processes through which we determine how we are doing in our foreign affairs has been
commandeered so that we could be commanded. The first amendment is in shambles, along with
most of the others, and has been since 911. Rumsfeld rumbles about how the most important
part of the war is the propaganda war, which he also refers to as the information war. The two
kinds of war -- propaganda and informational -- are really the same thing, infowar.
Infowar is the key to continuing the quicksand war until the world war can continue it, as it was
always supposed to do. Those who have lied us into this mess never intended to one day tell us
the truth if good sense proved that we needed to get out of it. Far to the contrary, they figured
that sinking the Armed Forces into Middle Eastern quicksand would become the "footprint" from
which we could commit ourselves further still, and that end justified any lying means necessary.
We finish this essay where we started it: By any rational reckoning, we have lost the war in Iraq,
unless there is some plan to escalate it to World War Three, mobilizing the US economy and
returning to the draft. My hunch is that just such a plan exists, and that the people who have
misled intend to implement it before remember that we are a democracy and end a no-win war.
Captain Eric H. May, MI/PAO, USA
CO, Ghost Troop, 3/7 Cybercav+
Mission of Conscience / Patriots in Action
Captian May, a former Army intelligence and public affairs officer, was an NBC and Wall Street
Journal writer. His published Houston Chronicle war analyses (
www.geocities.com/onlythecaptain/pub.htm ) predicted disaster in Iraq. His most recent
article, Operation Apocalypse (
www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/07/31/may.htm), specifies
what kind of plan the Bush administration may use to initiate World War Three.