The Pentagon"s failure of lying about the War on Iraq is becoming self-evident throughout the world, despite an unlimited budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, used to outsource its disinformation through lackeys like the Lincoln Group and SAIC. Also known as Psychological Operations or PsyOps, the Pentagon can not lie itself out of its miserable failure in promoting the War on Iraq as a "success." Government Executive tries to spin the Pentagon failure like this -- "Psychological operations, defined by the military as the "systematic process of conveying messages to selected foreign groups to promote particular themes that result in desired foreign attitudes and behaviors," traditionally have been the nearly exclusive purview of the 4th PSYOPS Group (Airborne) of the Army"s Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the military services have shown renewed interest in mass persuasion. For example, two-and-a-half years ago at Fort Bragg, N. LANET C., the Army unveiled its Special Operations Forces Media Operations Complex, a 51,756-square-foot facility replete with all the tools 4th PSYOPS requires - printing presses, studios and digital audiovisual production facilities - in the service of producing materials to win hearts and minds wherever the U.S. military finds itself in the world." http://www.govexec.com/features/1205-01/1205-01s5.htm In other words -- Pentagon lies rule the media, but they are still unconvincing. Operation Iraqi Freedom, an Orwellian name in itself, according to Government Executive, "revealed that PSYOPS weren"t all they were cracked up to be. Part of this had nothing to do with quality; some PSYOPS units had been incredibly useful, but failed in their duty as "force multipliers" simply because there weren"t enough of them. This was hardly surprising, as PSYOPS accounts for only 4,800 soldiers, 76 percent of whom are reservists. But the report also concluded that, for reasons that had nothing to do with numbers, PSYOPS simply hadn"t had as profound an effect as some had thought. Not long after the lessons-learned report, the Pentagon"s Defense Science Board - echoing an earlier Defense Planning Guidance report and a somewhat neglected 2003 Pentagon "Information Operations Roadmap" - concluded that when it came to conception and coordination of strategic communications, including PSYOPS, the military"s efforts had languished. The board strongly endorsed a number of nascent structural and philosophical efforts at Defense and elsewhere to win a global battle of ideas." Damn! Pentagon lies aren"t so effective after all. Then came along --the Joint Psychological Operations Support Element (JPSE, or more colloquially, "gypsy"). Described in official literature as a unit comprising "more than 50 senior military and civilians with a deep knowledge of psychological operations," JPSE"s raison d"être isn"t to horn in on the Army"s PSYOPS turf, but rather to spare commanders across services and commands the agony of going through multiple layers of bureaucracy for support. And, according to a press release earlier this year, JPSE is devoting itself not to the darker aspects of psychological warfare but to propagating truthful messages." In other words, how can the DoD "improve" Pentagon lies? According to Professor Philip M. Taylor of England"s University of Leeds. "PSYOPS has really only worked in tactical/operations contexts, but in today"s global infosphere, there"s no longer any such thing as tactical information - everything has a strategic capability. This is where PSYOPS has traditionally been weak," says Taylor, one of the world"s leading experts on psychological operations, public diplomacy and propaganda, and a consultant to the American and British governments. "JPSE is a recognition that 4th PSYOPS has been quite effective at the tactical/operational levels but less so at the strategic, and is part of the roadmap by which all components of information operations are to become more closely coordinated than they have thus far." Pentagon PsyOps was a failure. Period. "In early 2004, the Army Command General and Staff College"s Combined Arms Research Library published a detailed study of major combat operations in Iraq. Its conclusion: PSYOPS were at best a mixed bag. "PSYOPS units can point with satisfaction to success in minimizing damage to the oil fields and keeping civilians off roads," it said. "However, they do so with risk since there is very little evidence available yet to support that contention. . . . Moreover, the PSYOPS effort enjoyed far less success in encouraging Iraqi units to surrender. . . . PSYOPS produced much less than expected and perhaps less than claimed." No matter how many liar/ subcontractors like the Lincoln Group the Pentagon hires-- it can"t get over the basic premise. It lies and lies and lies about the War on Iraq. How can you hide a lie? You can"t. Will the Pentagon ever understand? No. Not until it is shattered into a thousand pieces to use President John F. Kennedy"s words regarding the CIA...