A Tale of Two Tortures

[JCMach1]

Commentary by JCMach1

Think about it for a minute... You are losing a guerilla war and losing the hearts and minds of the people. What else do you have to fall back on. The answer: FEAR. The torture and humiliation of Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq served the systematic purpose of trying to induce Saddamlike fear on the populous. Even if the story or pictures got out, it would still HELP your cause in Iraq because it shows how inhumane you can be. The theory would be-- if you can't beat them... BEAT THEM.

Now, factor in extremists on the other side who are willing to commit attrocities (and videotape it). For the first time in U.S. history you have a new level of PSYOPS. The internet now brings instantaneous news, sounds, and images into people's homes. Just imagine, if in WWII, the Japanese had published pictures of the Bataan death march. The inhumanity of war is now just a click away and a beamed satellite into your home.

Conspiracy or not, the Berg video played directly into the hands of those who support the war in Iraq. Who loses? Not the terrorists... Not Bush...

Instead it's the Iraqi people and the poor misguided Berg kid. Score a double victory for the bad guys and hope they don't hit the trifecta.

republished with the permission of the author...
http://www.thesyndrome.com/archives/00000879.htm