more info on the fake letters from iraq
 

As we pull, and tug at the spam propaganda story ? those fake "good news" letters from Iraq sent out to 500 newspapers, signed by different soldiers ? the whole fabric of this odd little episode begins to come apart, revealing a whole other layer underneath. The Pentagon, the local commanders, everyone disclaimed any knowledge of this "good news" factory, and it was only a coincidence that the President had just launched a major public relations blitz designed to shore up support for the war.

The official story, up until recently, was that a single individual soldier had taken it upon himself to write and circulate the letter, but, as it turned out, this wasn't just any grunt: it was Lt. Col. Dominic Caraccilo, who is, by any measure, far from ordinary.

He is not only a published author and editor, but is also, perhaps, the single most cited soldier in press accounts of the war, as a Google search reveals. Wherever there is a question to be answered, a rationale to articulate, a "good news" perspective to be given on some unfolding disaster, Lt. Col. Caraccilo is at the media's service.

http://etherzone.com/2003/raim101703.shtml

OH MY GOD THE ALIENS ARE COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :helpme

ok, so Lieutenant Colonel Dominic Caraccilo took the credit for the letter writing campaign, but who was really behind it?

"I should explain something about the military for readers unfamiliar. No Lieutenant Colonel -- a person with around 15 years in the Officer Personnel Management System, one of the most ruthlessly unforgiving bureaucratic ladders in existence, where someone is always waiting for you to fuck up -- is unilaterally going to cook up and carry out something this harebrained. He doesn't have the time under normal circumstances, because running an infantry battalion that is deployed into a hostile fire zone is very time-consuming, and he doesn't want to commit career suicide five years from his eligibility to draw a pension."

http://counterpunch.org/goff10172003.html