Ghost Troop Home Page April Fools Part 4
Dear Mr. Hooper (and other concerned American Moslem leaders):
I’m glad you recalled our conversation a month ago. As you remembered, I was then writing you in defense of Captain Yee and other Moslem servicemen in Guantanamo Bay, whom I believed were being set up as scapegoats for a couple of reasons: first, to stir up anti-Islamic feelings among the American public; second, to distract possible inquiries into any excesses in the treatment of prisoners in what is (in all but name) a concentration camp.
Following our conversation I made contact with numerous influential members of the media, the military and politics to stress to them that I believed the country was being led far into a McCarthyistic course to prop up its willingness to attack Moslems at home and abroad. You may recall having told me that people of the Islamic faith have become the new American target minority as “sand niggers.” I concurred at the time, having heard the term countless times.
A few moments ago you were kind enough to speak to me again, and I laid out the following points:
I was an Army captain with
specialties in the areas of military intelligence and public affairs, who had
volunteered for the defensive war to liberate
Since the mobilization of American media to convince the public to support the current President Bush’s crusade against the Middle East, I have been writing commentary and analysis on the reality of things, military, media and political, behind the propaganda we see, hear and read through these days. My conclusions have been startling – and correct. [Editor’s emphasis, in all cases]
My most certain and most radical conclusion
is that the American Public has been lied-to about the reality of the Battle of
Baghdad, which began with an Iraqi attack (as promised by Saddam) against the
U.S. 3/7 Cavalry Squadron, the advance unit for the 3rd Infantry
Division, on the morning of April 5, at the Baghdad airport. The battle lasted three days, and the media
conveniently covered the Private
Jessica hoax to keep from telling
the public something sure to suppress its war lust: that hundreds of
Since the Battle of
Baghdad, there has been a concerted policy by Army public affairs and the media
to suppress any reference to the battle, as well as a consistent effort to
suppress the number of reported
Mr. Hooper, every point I have made above has been confirmed by U.S. officers, reporters and editors since I began my inquiries at the end of the Battle of Baghdad (marked by the contrived pulling down of Saddam’s statue for the cameras, April 8).
I have attached:
My two
op-eds from the Houston
Chronicle opposing intervention in
My two essays (which no one is willing to publish) about the Battle of Baghdad.
My last published op-ed (July 8) continuing my gloomy prognosis for the war and questioning the motives that led us to it.
Iraqi Resistance Report IV, which I discovered in August, but which confirmed my real-time analysis of April about the Battle of Baghdad.
My most recent letter to Thom Shanker, New York Times Reporter, who plays word games in English and will talk truth about matters only in Russian (a language he and I share) because of fear for his career.
A list of media indicators from the days of the Battle of Baghdad implying the existence and severity of the battle.
Again, thank you for
hearing me out both last month and this morning. I know that the material I’ve attached is
about two newspaper pages of reading, but I promise you that you will read no
more informative two pages in the
With respect,
Eric May
Ghost Troop Home Page April Fools Part 4