Pentagon Creates Surge ‘War Room’ to Battle Press after ‘Petraeus Report’
The Pentagon is preparing to wage its own media war to support the Bush administration’s September troop surge report (formerly known as the Petraeus Report). The campaign war room, officially referred to as the Iraq Communications Desk, will be a 24-hours-per-day, seven-days-per-week operation that will “pump out data from Baghdad.
Of course, the Pentagon denies it will be a propaganda machine, instead the Pentagon describe is a “high priority effort to distribute Defense Department information on Iraq.” They see it as a “smarter way of doing business” with an an object to ?create a central clearinghouse of information so we can pull in all that is coming out of Baghdad and Iraq and have it come into one point, so we can better be able to share it with people who are interested.?
It sounds much more like FOX News on steroids.
Isn’t it a bit suspect that now after almost five years of failure after failure, the Pentagon decides it needs to undertake a massive effort to keep the public informed about what’s going on in Iraq?
They can call it what the want, but it’s another White House Iraq Group.
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