Propaganda by plane

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Has anyone else seen the footage of special US "studio airplanes" pumping anti-Iraq propaganda into Iraqi households? A special television broadcast compels the Iraqi people not to take up arms to defend Saddam Hussein. There's also lots of mocking the Iraqi government. In one piece, they're shown a photo of Saddam with the mouth cut out and an actor badmouthing "himself" by saying such things as "I flee from palace to palace every day". The government is also compared to rats that "will end up devouring each other", while footage of heaps of dead rats is shown.

I'm not condemning this, but christ, shouldn't we be above this sort of thing? What's next, Bush declares that Saddam Hussein will at all times be referred to in the media as "a great big poopyhead"?