I Smell a Rat
Karl “the rodent” Rove that is. Looks like they’re ramping up the disinformation campaign early for the November midterms. Shades of Swift Boat Veterans for Lies Truth.
Kurds just want to thank the US
By Aaron GlantzSAN FRANCISCO - Kurdish Iraqi officials toured the United States last week to launch a massive advertising and public relations campaign thanking the United States for overthrowing Saddam Hussein and urging US companies to invest in the region.
The campaign looks suspicious to some observers, however, since it is run by an A-list Republican PR firm that refuses to divulge how much money it is spending.
“The Kurds of northern Iraq just want to say, ‘Thank you for helping us win our freedom,’” says the voiceover in one of the commercials currently showing nationally on the MSNBC and Fox television channels and in Washington, DC; Portland, Oregon; and the San Francisco Bay area.
On the screen, Kurdish children wave US flags. “Thank you, America,” one says. “Thank you for democracy,” says another.
The ad campaign, as well as a US tour by Kurdish politician Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, was put together by the California PR firm Russo, Marsh and Rogers.
In addition to representing the Kurdish government, the firm founded the “Stop Michael Moore” campaign to discredit the film Fahrenheit 9/11 and a group called “Move America Forward”, which has brought parents of dead soldiers to be counter-protesters at peace demonstrations.
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