The ultimate weapon
Via Eschaton comes this TPM Muckraker item about robo-calls. And it's not what you think. Or is it?
No wonder they hate us. I wonder if Frank Luntz speaks Arabic, and how ordinary Iraqis feel about their estate taxes? Maybe Frank Blethen can put his lobbyist on it, see if they can help out.
Not long after Republicans harrassed tens of thousands of Americans with automated phone messages in November's election, news comes that the robo call, that staple of American democracy, is being deployed in Iraq. And it's literally terrorizing city residents.This almost has to be some Republican genius at work. It fits too neatly into their mental framework about Iraq. So now we've tried to give Iraqis a flat tax, stop smoking clinics and robo-calls.
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The Mahdi Army has also infiltrated police ranks, and run assassination squads. Fearing that the militia's inside men have access to wiretapping technology, ordinary Iraqis live in fear that their robocall will be picked up and intepreted as proof they are anti-Mahdi -- and face execution at the militia's hands. The call reportedly left one Iraqi woman in tears.
No wonder they hate us. I wonder if Frank Luntz speaks Arabic, and how ordinary Iraqis feel about their estate taxes? Maybe Frank Blethen can put his lobbyist on it, see if they can help out.
