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Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: videoholic on April 13, 2003, 04:27:17 AM

Newsweek has some great stories.  Great read on psyops.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899657.asp?0cv=CB10

"Know thine enemy is a cardinal rule of war. Ignorance was costly for American soldiers fighting guerrillas in Vietnam. Before plunging into Iraq, U.S. psychological-warfare operators studied certain cultural stereotypes. One was that young Arab toughs cannot tolerate insults to their manhood. So, as American armored columns pushed down the road to Baghdad, 400-watt loudspeakers mounted on Humvees would, from time to time, blare out in Arabic that Iraqi men are impotent. The Fedayeen, the fierce but undisciplined and untrained Iraqi irregulars, could not bear to be taunted. Whether they took the bait or saw an opportunity to attack, many Iraqis stormed out of their concealed or dug-in positions, pushing aside their human shields in some cases—to be—slaughtered by American tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles. “What you say is many times more important than what you do in this part of the world,” says a senior U.S. psy-warrior."





The last paragraph is pretty funny:

"But the oddest discovery came in the abandoned mansion of Tariq Aziz, Sad-dam’s deputy prime minister and his longtime emissary to the West. Aziz must have liked his trips abroad. His house was full of old copies of Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan, bottles of Dakkar Noir and Obsession cologne, more than 50 American movies on DVD (“Sleepless in Seattle,” “The Godfather”). Then there was a Princeton Review test-preparation book, titled “Cracking the GMAT,” marked with notes in the margins. Was Aziz planning on applying to American graduate school? There are some things about the enemy that are just unknowable."

Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: Tyrant on April 13, 2003, 06:18:15 AM

lol, u gotta love psyops.

Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: Ashford on April 13, 2003, 07:05:46 PM

HA HA!!!

Iraq\'s Import List

1) Anthrax
2) VX Nerve Gas
3) Viagra

Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: (e) on April 13, 2003, 09:59:40 PM

:laughing:

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3) Viagra

LMFAO!

Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: Paul on April 14, 2003, 07:53:44 PM

I\'ve got better line: Just say "Allah is gay" and they\'ll rush out to be shot. yeah..yeah...crude, tasteles, racist...but hey, it\'ll be 100% effective.

To be more politically correct, perhaps they can borrow some famous pirate insults from "Monkey Island" (tm).

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You fight like a cow!(or in this case, just substitute cow with \'pig\').

Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: Tyrant on April 14, 2003, 11:20:58 PM

you know i should be taking great offense to yer first statement, but damn my opened mindedness to other peoples ignorance.

Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: Paul on April 15, 2003, 10:12:21 PM

Yeah, but that doesn\'t reduce it\'s effectiveness. :P

Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: ooseven on April 16, 2003, 01:46:39 AM

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Originally posted by Paul
I\'ve got better line: Just say "Allah is gay" and they\'ll rush out to be shot. yeah..yeah...crude, tasteles, racist...but hey, it\'ll be 100% effective.

To be more politically correct, perhaps they can borrow some famous pirate insults from "Monkey Island" (tm).

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You fight like a cow!(or in this case, just substitute cow with \'pig\').

*sigh* :rolleyes:

Talk about people not learning...

Paul havn\'t WE had words on posts similar to this ?

Title: "Iraqi men are impotent!"
Post by: luckee on April 16, 2003, 03:56:15 AM

Yes many of us has had words with this ignorant guy.



I smell something comming.