Bush admin Fakes letters to editor from US troops in Iraq

Looks like the only support Bush has for his failure in Iraq is 'Fake' support.

The Bush administration is truly desperate.

They are sending the same letter to newspapers all across the country. The propaganda sweep uses a fake letter, supposedly from a US troop who is writing to his or her hometown newspaper to say everything is going just swell in Iraq.

This is identical to communist propaganda in the old Soviet Union.

And they are using the names of real troops, and some of the propaganda letters include forged signatures of real US troops!

I'm not sure if that is a crime, but it's definite proof that the Bush administration will stoop to the lowest levels to lie and distort the truth to the American public.

To use our brave troops as propaganda tools is not only pathetic, its sick!


Best!
Kelley


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Note -- I would suggest you check your local and regional papers and alert them if you see any of these fake letters, this is just breaking so there are probably many more out there the Bushies have fooled newspapers into publishing.

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031011/frontpage/121390.shtml


MANY SOLDIERS, SAME LETTER
Newspapers around U.S. get identical missives from Iraq


WASHINGTON -- Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours.

And all the letters are the same.

A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Rock," in 11 newspapers, including Snohomish, Wash.

The Olympian received two identical letters signed by different hometown soldiers: Spc. Joshua Ackler and Spc. Alex Marois, who is now a sergeant. The paper declined to run either because of a policy not to publish form letters.

The five-paragraph letter talks about the soldiers' efforts to re-establish police and fire departments, and build water and sewer plants in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where the unit is based.

"The quality of life and security for the citizens has been largely restored, and we are a large part of why that has happened," the letter reads.

It describes people waving at passing troops and children running up to shake their hands and say thank you.

It's not clear who wrote the letter or organized sending it to soldiers' hometown papers.

Six soldiers reached by GNS directly or through their families said they agreed with the letter's thrust. But none of the soldiers said he wrote it, and one said he didn't even sign it.

Marois, 23, told his family he signed the letter, said Moya Marois, his stepmother. But she said he was puzzled why it was sent to the newspaper in Olympia. He attended high school in Olympia but no longer considers the city home, she said. Moya Marois and Alex's father, Les, now live near Kooskia, Idaho.

A seventh soldier didn't know about the letter until his father congratulated him for getting it published in the local newspaper in Beckley, W.Va.

"When I told him he wrote such a good letter, he said: 'What letter?' " Timothy Deaconson said Friday, recalling the phone conversation he had with his son, Nick. "This is just not his (writing) style."


THE FULL STORY IS HERE:
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031011/frontpage/121390.shtml

to forge someone's signature to a letter. Doesn't it? Some of these soliders didn't even know about the letter until a family member mentioned it to them.
This is really slimy.

nothin to concern yourself with citizen, go about your life. :eyes:

I don’t know anything about military procedure or code of conduct, but would think when a US troop puts their signature on something to be published it would carry some weight (or responsibility).

Is the Bush administration setting precedence that its ok to forge a soldiers signature for any stance on a war or conflict??

Write a positive letter about Iraq 1000 times.