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If you Tell a Big Enough Lie Over and Over Again...
Over at Montrose Toast, DJ Elliot exposes a big lie about Saddam Hussein that our detractors like to put forth time and time again.
The Big Lie Propaganda approach is: If you state a big enough lie often enough, people will believe it.
This concept took off when the National SOCIALIST German Workers Party (Hitler) used it in the 1930s and 1940s and the Communist (Stalin) adopted it from them.
In this article, Murdoc askes "Spot Anything Questionable?":
"Early
in the Iran-Iraq War, an AK-47-toting Iranian soldier watches smoke
rising from burning oil refineries near the Iranian city of Abadan. The
Iraqis under Saddam Hussein, armed and supported by the United States,
used mostly M16s. Photo: Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis" From Wired
What is being furthered in the caption is the big lie that the United States armed Saddam...
[link is http://home.comcast.net/~djyae/site/?/blog/view/10/ ]
July 08, 2009 • Permalink
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