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and what percentage of that target info has proven false?
Art Martin — (archived)

Mark, I so agree that we've had some successes with our tips but it certainly sounds like we've been misled as much as we've been steered correctly. The problem lies in the use of bombings to go after the targets. We get assurances from our military that they have on-the-ground intel prior to missile and bomb attacks but it sure seems that those are easily countered in public opinion if even one woman or child dies in the explosions. It's pretty hard for us to show we were right when our supposed targets are only bits of flesh and bone.

I can certainly buy the concept that our intentions are almost always honorable in our attacks but it just seems our public relations info is steps behind the media of the rest of the world, particulaly the Arab news stations. Just does not sound like we are proactively courting that resource. Have you ever once seen a surveillance videotape of a suspected target on a post-bombing news conference that counters the assertion that what we hit was a wedding party or birthday?

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