Why isn the propaganda machine working in Iraq?
I have seen many programs on US television showing how the American military operates showing many of the techniques used by the military to control the people and the governments of countries when they get involved in the conflict for any reason. They call it psychological warfare. They use loudspeakers with sounds of major fighting going on to simulate a major offensive attack to scare the enemy. They jam the local air waves of radio and television, and then they broadcast their own information or propaganda. They drop from airplanes all kind of propaganda materials trying to convey to the local people the ideas and instructions that they wish them to follow. For example, in the current war against Iraq, the US has dropped all over that country more than 30 million pieces of propaganda materials. These materials give the people all kind of instructions from how to overthrow the current government to how to get humanitarian help. Today, communications travel at the speed of light arou
