Let's send bloggers to Iraq

This article discusses a planned psyops campaign as part of our "On To Baghdad 2003" campaign:

Sophisticated broadcasting planes operated by the 193rd Special Operations Wing of the Pennsylvania National Guard, together with ground transmitters in Kuwait and elsewhere, would be used to transmit anti-Saddam programming to the Iraqi populace, officials said.

The psychological operation also is expected to include leaflet drops - some of which started last week over the southern no-fly zone in Iraq with a warning to Iraqi soldiers not to fire on patrolling allied aircraft. And, once troops are on the ground, newspapers printed in Arabic by specialized U.S. Army units are to be distributed.

I've got a better, or at least different idea. I won't try to figure out how it could be accomplished or the downsides, although I might post about that later. What we should do right now is somehow get the Internet to the Iraqi people. They're information starved. We don't have to allow them access to the full Internet, and we could intersplice effective pro-Western propaganda into their surfing.

Iraq · Thu, 11/14/2002 - 11:10 · · Importance: 1