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19. Mar 2006

Irak: Lidt om, hvordan vi fyldes med løgn

 
USA indleder massivt luftangreb mod Irak, skrev Politiken i fredags, og alle andre danske aviser fulgte så vidt jeg se artigt trop.

Og det var da vitterlig også, hvad det amerikanske militærs propaganda-apparat havde sat i søen.

I virkeligheden var der bare ikke noget luftangreb, som det fremgår af Time Magazine:
Not a shot was fired, or a leader nabbed, in a major offensive that failed to live up to its advance billing
(...)
In fact, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op.
Chris Albritton fortæller tilsvarende, under overskriften Operation Overblown:
There are no insurgents, no fighting and 17 of the 41 prisoners taken have already been released after just one day. The “number of weapons caches” equals six, which isn’t unusual when you travel around Iraq.
(...)
Just to clear some things up, “air assault” does not equal air strikes. There are no JDAMs being dropped, and there are no fixed-wing aircraft involved at all, except maybe for surveillance. An air assault is the 101st Airborne's way of inserting troops into a battlespace. There is so far no evidence of bombardment of any kind.
(...)
As noted, about 1,500 troops were involved, 700 American and 800 Iraqi. But get this: in the area they’re scouring there are only about 1,500 residents. According to my colleague and other reporters who were there, not a single shot has been fired.
I fredags kunne man også læse, at vores forsvarsminister Søren Gade ser positivt på amerikansk Irak-angreb. Hvor dumme er det egentlig lige, (vore medier tror?) vi er?

Moralen er nok, at lige så snart man hører om den slags store, spektakulære operationer, skal man spørge sig selv, om det ikke snarere i virkeligheden er løgn, en photo op, med Albrittons ord: "A media show designed to show off the new Iraqi Army - although there was no enemy for them to fight".

Men ... hvorfor man selv skal finde ud af den slags - hvorfor man som læser selv skal gøre de danske journalisters arbejde for dem - det er nok mere, end jeg lige kan svare på.

Er danske journalister dumme, eller er de bare dovne?

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