Lonestar Iconoclast: Battle of Baghdad Cover-Up Four Years Later

[babylonsister]

http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=1294&z=123

Battle of Baghdad Cover-Up Four Years Later
Monday, April 02, 2007
By W. Leon Smith, Iconoclast Publisher

Captain Eric H. May, Ghost Troop Founder


Interview With
CAPTAIN ERIC MAY
Ghost Troop Commander

CRAWFORD — April 5-8 marks the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Baghdad, the bloody battle that was the lead-up to President Bush’s infamous and untruthful claim on May 1, 2003, of "Mission Accomplished."

However, according to news sources overseas, including American military operatives and various investigators, all was not what it seemed at Baghdad Airport. They claim that the Battle of Baghdad was largely covered up as something the American public should not see, with U.S. news coverage instead focusing on a staged photo-op rescue of captive Private Jessica Lynch and later the pulling down of the Saddam Hussein statue, as symbolic of an easy victory.

Captain Eric H. May, a former intelligence and public affairs officer in the military, told The Iconoclast, "The biggest story of the war became a non-event when the truth of the matter was that it was simply too bloody an event to report." He says that this played a part in persuading the American public to forfeit "thinking for themselves" when it came to this war.

As a unique way to acknowledge and honor the fallen — and oft-forgotten — soldiers in the Battle of Baghdad, Captain May formed what he calls Ghost Troop, an independent military cyber-cavalry movement aimed at fighting governmental propaganda — a/k/a info-war.

Commanded by Captain May, Ghost Troop consists of current and past high-level military professionals and police veterans who claim expertise at reading governmental strategies. As a former member of the "propaganda machine" himself, Captain May has expressed grave concern that most of the mainstream media, now owned by corporations that are part of the military/industrial complex, are selling the American people a bill of goods for the sole purpose of corporate profits from the war.

This, he says, is why when there are important things happening, such as the Battle of Baghdad, that might not best serve continuing those profits, the media will latch onto obscure stories, like that of Private Lynch, and blow them out of proportion, consuming the lion’s share of airtime and print, while ignoring, effectively covering up, the real stories of importance.

more...

[Redstone]

1. Now, this is something worth looking into, and I will. Thanks for the post.

Redstone

[babylonsister]

3. I'd never even heard of the 'Ghost Troops'. Happy hunting, Redstone! nt

[rodeodance]

2. just in time for Bush's arrival in Crawford (tomorrow---for his Easter holiday)

[rodeodance]

4. he give Wes Clark for going public:

CONOCLAST: You say that 2003 was the turning point in the war. Could you elaborate on that?

CAPTAIN MAY: On June 25, 2003, Wesley Clark, who was pushing for the Democratic nomination, appeared on CNN’s Crossfire, and actually spelled out the whole war equation, which was that the Bush people and the neo-cons, going way back into the 90s, had wanted this war. This war was a geo-political push to control oil and take care of Israeli political problems, and 911 was the excuse they needed.

After 911, they ramrodded us into a war that we were supposed to clean up neatly before China could gear up to be any kind of opposition. Basically, Wesley Clark said that the global war was a world war. It was shortly after his remarks that war critics and truth-tellers started chiming in on both sides of the Atlantic.

On July 6, Joe Wilson, in the New York Times, wrote an op-ed column that the Bush Administration’s claims of Iraqi nuclear material were bogus.

At about the same time, David Kelly, one of the top WMD experts in the UK, was giving information to the BBC to the effect that Blair had "sexed up" the intelligence to go to war.

None of this is shocking now. We’ve since seen the Downing Street memoranda where the Bush Administration, prior to the invasion, said that it was going to "fix the intelligence" to justify the Iraq war.

[rodeodance]

5. here is some more writings by Capt. May:

For Captain May’s original report on the purges of the summer of 2003 search "Ghost Troop Introduction" at <www.geocities.com/onlythecaptain/>. This report includes the Captain’s Iraq essays from The Houston Chronicle.

Captain May and Ghost Troop were featured in a cover story in The Iconoclast in 2006. The story is available at <http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=402&z=52.>.

[tech3149]

6. I hate when someone makes this much sense exposing the evils of this

administration. I just have to put another layer on the tinfoil and accept that mere humans can only deal with so much reality.

[ninkasi]

7. I wish I didn't find this

so easy to believe. Sadly, with the Bush cabal, nothing is beyond their capacity for evil.

[ninkasi]

8. Giving another kick

I hope more will read this.

[babylonsister]

9. And another! nt

[ninkasi]

10. This is an extremely interesting post

I would like to see it get more attention, because it seems credible. We all know how many excellent threads are started by babylonsister, and this is one of them...I'm giving it another kick.:kick:

[eridani]

11. Problems with the source--

http://kateablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/eric-may-ghost-troop.html

Eric May, Ghost Troop

I came across the name above when reading an article on Progressive Independent, a good site if you enjoy news and discussion. Mr. May's name was mentioned in an article titled Soldiers Join Sheehan in Protesting the War on Iraq.

The article states : "Eric May, “Captain May,”a Houstonian who might be compared with Che Guevara in a cowboy hat, was on the scene to support Cindy and protect the protestors. A former military intelligence officer, May has for the past couple of years headed an Internet activist group called “Ghost Troop,” whose mission is fighting propaganda and misinformation issued by the Bush Administration and propagated by the corporate media. Prior experience as a high school teacher of classic languages along with his insider’s military experience make May an engaging speaker. He mesmerized listeners with his account of the April 2003 Battle of Baghdad and its cover-up, while the engineered “rescue” of Pvt. Jessica Lynch was played out on television."

The blurb above had my attention as two of my sons are MI, and one was actually there during the "Battle of Baghdad" in 2003. Initially I thought Captain May had served/fought in the April 2003 Battle of Baghdad but further reading showed that not to be the case. So I googled for more information on the Captain, not having seen anything previously from him on the internet and having spent a great deal of time surfing and reading, especially the past five years.

Using "ghost troop" as search, the first google link is May's website, with his Tae Kwon Do photo, military background, and "published essays" although it seems the publishing of Battle for Baghdad by the Houston Chronicle, was in the Outlook section, a readers opinion page. Online Chronicle does not archive Outlook so I found nothing there. Another link showed what appeared to be a May 2005 posting of snips from May's essay and responses. One gentleman disputing May's information sounded very credible.

So I googled "ghost troop of Baghdad" and the first link was from National Vanguard, the white supremist group. At the bottom of the Vanguard page was Source: Adelaide Institute. Well, that might explain why I haven't surfed across Cap'n May before as both Vanguard and Adelaide are too white for me.

So I googled "adelaide institute eric may" and the first link was a reprint of e-mail from Eric May explaining his position on the Zionist control of the media.

The second paragraph of May's e-mail :
"I re-include the press release we of Ghost Troop have issued, giving confirmed "news" that the Zionist-controlled US Media has repressed for 30 months, in complete disregard of the tenets of the Constitution and the ethics of journalism: http://www.nationalvanguard.org/printer.php?id=6479."

There's that National Vanguard again. At this point I suspect one of two possibilities: Captain May is still MI and infiltrating the peace movement, or – and more likely, he's as full of shit as a Thanksgiving turkey.

[Jcrowley]

12. Kick