[lbo-talk] British Torture Photos A Fake?

[Stephen E Philion]

It's amusing to see the media jumping on the possibly fake character of 
the British photos. In this day and age of digital photos, guerilla 
psyops becomes all the easier it would seem. This is kind of an 
inversion of the American psyops campaign during and after the official 
invasion of Iraq and the occupation.  Now the same tactics can be used 
by those opposed to the occupier as well, since, after all, as any good 
American or British psyops officer will tell you, what matters is that 
the photos get etched in the memory of the masses, not that they are 
real--thus silly pseudoevents and pseudophotos of the 'saddam statue 
falling' shown over and over and over...By the time it was reported as 
fake crowds in the picture...well it was already in the minds of most 
Americans as a piece of war meaning.  

These British pictures can well turn out to be fake, it doesn't matter, 
the effect is already irreversible. As they say, what comes around goes 
around. 

Steve