The reason why we don't suggest that they surrender is that this go around, we will just bypass those who are sitting out the conflict.
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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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I love it when people talk about the "uneducated" as if not getting a high school education would deprive people of common sense. You don't need to be well educated to get "if you lay down your arms you will be treated well." - that's common sense.Only feebs vote.
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Originally posted by Agathon
I love it when people talk about the "uneducated" as if not getting a high school education would deprive people of common sense. You don't need to be well educated to get "if you lay down your arms you will be treated well." - that's common sense.
I mean do you think in the 40's when WW II propoganada was being spread around that peopel were like "geez I'm being propogated, well I'll just ignore that"
The more educated know propoganda when they see it, even if it is in it's newer glossier shinier form. I mean don't give people too much credit, they are all excited about this "Showdown with Saddam" in the "Countdown to Iraq" which will be a "target Iraq", and all other glitzy forms of braodcasting.
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I would think Iraq remembers the humiliation its military recieved. This is just a reminder we are prepared to do it again.Last edited by Shi Huangdi; March 11, 2003, 03:11."I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
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- RES NON VERBA - DE OPRESSO LIBER - VERITAS ET LIBERTAS - O TOLMON NIKA - SINE PARI - VIGLIA PRETIUM LIBERTAS - SI VIS PACEM , PARA BELLUM -
- LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA - one shot , one kill - freedom exists only in a book - everything you always wanted to know about special forces - everything you always wanted to know about Israel - what Dabur does in his free time , ... - in french - “Become an anti-Semitic teacher for 5 Euro only.”
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Originally posted by Agathon
Surely they could have come up with something better. What's wrong with "if you surrender, you will be fed and treated humanely." Add to that a picture of a nice cake and a naked woman (caption: have you had your last ****?) and I reckon you'd convert anyone who had to sit in a piss-filled shell hole.
In Gulf War I they did the same thing but said Saudi King Fizal Saud offers his hospitality to any Iraqi who wishes to flee Saddam's tyrrany. It worked like a charm. The most common themes are to get a soldier to surrender, disert, sow desention between officers & enlisted or between different ethnic groups, counter enmey propaganda, offer rewards, and stuff like that. Also remember that usually there is a whole campaign and useually they start small (like trying to harm enemy moral) then the move up (disert or go sick leave) and after they've taken a pounding and soldiers are near by the go for the "surrender and live/think of your family" type things.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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A personnal favorite was a WW2 German leaflet which on the front showed a hot blond girl and the words "Gentlemen prefer blonds" Then on the back there was a picture of a man with only one leg and the words "but blonds don't prefer cripples". There was a whole pysop campaign that followed and apparently it was the most successful Nazi Psyop campaign agains the western allies during the war.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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