Propaganda or not
The reality is the coalition forces in Iraq from the very first time in 2001 , when the invasion and takeover was first mooted by the moron in the Oval Office to finish what his father had first started in 1990 in more ways then one !
The entire campaign from that fateful day in January 2001 when the moron and his merry group of repuke pigs assumed the mantle of deliberately leading the US to disaster both financially and militarily 1812 style and in the in the interim lost all grasp to any form reality , as he and his associated pigs were far to busy literally and figuratively looting the treasury of everything not bolted to the floor !
In the interim , he persuaded Blighty leader Tony B Liar and Little Johnny the forgotten one of Oz and the Canuk Tool to follow him blindly like a bunch of headless chickens in all his silly empire building programs , the Wily French leader reading between the lines saw what was coming and chose not to play as they were far too busy elsewhere !
This lack of dynamic leadership skills by the moron from the Oval Office is directly reflected by all headless up my back end political senior appointees in the US military machine of do evil war crimes but neither hear it or see it at the same time Vietnam style(thank one Colin P the man who told big porkies at the UN in 2003 for that one) !
Thus directly leading to the numerous dumb and stupid problems we see today in Iraq perpetrated from 2003 onwards ! The moron wanted and was given grandiose propaganda war we had last seen in the late 30's Spanish Civil War Goebbels News Reels (General Franco could not participate in WW2 as he was far too busy putting his civil war torn shattered country back together for the next decade or so , for such was the magnitude of internal destruction done to the infrastructure )
The problem , gee we Dumb and Stupid Yankees won quickly , got their Faux Propaganda shock and awe made for TV war, but in the process totally destroyed the entire local civilian but not military infrastructure and rebuilt it in our own flawed image using quislings and convicted bank thieves to head up the country , whilst looting all portable historical artifacts and directly stealing at least 65% of the UN food for oil monies in their back pockets at the same time !
Fast forward to the river incident , the UK/US military had been exposed to assorted mayhem and deliberate murder attacks against innocent civilians by poorly lead troops seeking avenge fellow soldiers killed by indiscriminate IED's and the great tip of the iceberg Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal and the world wide scandal of rendition of innocent people sent to foreign countries like Syria , Egypt , Ethiopia and many other closed countries to be tortured !
In the interim in the UK Tony B Liar and all his fellow Labor Party Wowsers and self flagellating wankers , after ignoring the ever getting bigger anti war crowds who said no in the first place and still using the same peace time reduced budget to fund his stupid overseas fool hardy pointless no win war ventures , the wily Iranians saw an opening to stage a great world one up yours , knowing full well even if the Navy was in the right and on the right side of the border the public with it's "You have fooled me often since 2001 with much false propaganda , I don't believe the authorities are ever again capable of telling the real truth again attitude , for you have told me only one lie after another since 2001" . Thus when MOD and the UK navy(which had already been involved in assorted exposed lies in the recent past) claimed they were not in the wrong but on the right side of the river nobody in the general public at large was ever going to believe that they were for once telling the truth and thus presumed to assume it was just another big propaganda lie to save their collective asses from the wrath of the public backlash that came forth .
The irony of it all, was for this incident was the past long history of MOD telling lies and other denials or indecent cover ups post WW2/Cold(hot tit for tat) War came back to haunt them very badly indeed , that was what the Iranians were using against all these wowsers and wankers at MOD to win one more round in the endless daily propaganda from the world mass media press from January 1st 2001 and still going strong !
Choices , whatever however MOD says it is it the truth ?