Comments on: More Agitprop

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:52:26 +0000

my response was to stop logging visits to my blog entirely [except that i couldn’t bring myself to give up clustrmaps].

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:40:33 +0000

I used to get hits from .dod.mil domains for a while. My response was to stop looking at my logs.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:16:51 +0000

you [and everybody else] used to get .mil visits from me. for some reason, my previous isp used to show up on everybody's sitemeter as being from the navy base here.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:04:42 +0000

This whole thing could be run out of a propaganda shop in the Pentagon with the military routing through a proxy for a consistent IP address. I keep getting .mil visitors from time to time.

By: andante

andante — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:54:24 +0000

Whichever person sent them, someone has been deliberately reading left-leaning and/or anti-war blogs & columns, then writing to challenge them. Perhaps someone has been put on ‘Google Petraeus’ duty.

A fine use of taxpayer money it is (syntax courtesy of Boylan or Yoda, take your pick)..

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:43:57 +0000

In general, full colonels read statements, they don’t write them. It is very possible that these exchanges are with E-6s or 7s in the colonel’s office and his e-mail address is the official office point of contact.

This may be under the actual direction of a reserve officer sent to Baghdad specifically for this purpose. Under Rumsfeld’s system agitprop was a reserve function.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:16:22 +0000

“Within a week, that was shown to be untrue by the Army’s own Field Artillery magazine.” – Bryan

So in this verbal battle at least, a magazine is where your ammunition is stored. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

I’ve duly updated my post to reference and link yours. Thanks for the additional info on Boylan. It never occurred to me that a subordinate might be writing “his” insulting emails, giving Boylan plausible deniability if asked whether he is the one who wrote them. However it took place, it’s a sorry business, but I suppose he learned the approach from the commander guy.