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Another walk on market street by USA Occupier

by DLi
2 years ago, US war hawk senator John McCain had a highly-publicized walk down a market street in Baghdad's Sadr City. It was a scripted photo-op on FOX News, as the video feed omitted the armed helicopters overhead, as well as platoons of US occupation troops securing the surrounding streets. Apparently, the propaganda spin worked so well that current US War Sec'y Robert Gates had to imitate the same "walk down the market street" scenario in the neo-colony ofAfghanistan yesterday.
Historically known as the "Potemkin Village" visit, this type of PR trick was first used by the Russian Tsars' handlers to impress the ruling elite that everything's hunky dory down at the periphery of the Empire. Hastily constructed false facades were put up to give a make-believe photo-op of how the good life the common peasants were living under the protection of the benevolent Ruler. Evidently, the USA empire is learning the lesson of how to transmit images of "tranquility" under the auspices of an Imperial Occupation. And once again, the Corporate-bin-Laden media is dutifully hiding the pesky details such as the fact that the town market at Zad was completely off limits to local Afghans, for obvious "security" reasons--it's quite likely many locals might have longed to lob a few "welcoming fireworks" for the Occupier's War Secretary!
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