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An article on this subject was deleted by redirect on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HÄ«t during the Iraq War
Hīt or Heet (هيت) is a city in al-Anbar province, Iraq (WP). Hīt lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital, in the Sunni Triangle. Along with other cities in Iraq, it was the target of a concentrated effort to throw money at the problem of the occupation of Iraq by US forces and the US puppet regime. The US army, after the third invasion of Iraq (the first being the covert support of Saddam Hussein's revolutionary forces by the CIA, in which they gave him information that would help him kill the communists in Iraq) were the instruments of this policy, dubbed "winning 'Hearts and Minds'"
In the sense of it being a program that relied on a great deal of money to implement, that remained largely in the form of money, and to a lesser extent wage labor (WP) bought with money, throughout its execution, it was similar to the Importation subsidy (no WP equivalent) program initiated in Viet Nam (WP) by the Ngo Diem regime, before the start of the Viet Nam War (WP). The US paid for goods imported into Viet Nam, sold to local merchants at artificially low prices, and gave the proceeds to the Diem government, on loan. In this way, the US in particular and the Diem government by extension was made more popular with the merchant class, the merchant class was financially empowered and politically motivated (bribed, in fact). The Vietnamese people would later be exposed to the Western lifestyle and attendant bribes in much the same way during the war, only with cigarettes and chewing gum.[1]
2nd Battalion 7th Marines (2/7) returned to the HÄ«t area from supporting Wikipedia:Operation Vigilant Resolve. Its focus of operations was to propagandize the occupation and buy off local leaders to get the maximum amount of control in the area. U.S. military sources suggest that 2/7 civil affairs efforts injected nearly $3 million USD into local reconstruction and security efforts. Control was further increased by training armed forces such as Iraqi National Guard units and police forces. Psy Ops forces were used in Hit in March 2007, the same month as the Task Force oversaw the successful delivery of five billion Iraqi Dinar to the Hit bank. In April, the Task Force paid out almost $100,000 to local HÄ«t business owners.
See the rest of the article, albeit one that is primarily US Armed Forces propgaganda, at US 'Hearts & Minds' campaign in HÄ«t, Iraq. The rest of the article was deemed of insufficient propaganda value to justify the leak of the information about the true nature of 'Hearts and Minds' as being bribes and payoffs, so that article was redirected to the city article.
- ↑ The United States in Vietnam: An analysis in depth of the history of America's involvement in Vietnam Chapter IV, The Emergence of Two Vietnams (and if it matters, since my copy is so old, page 78), by George McTurnan Kahin and John W. Lewis Delta Books, 1967. The best book on Viet Nam I have ever read, and wouldn't you know it, out of print. But as the link shows, cited by many other books. Ok, I admit it, it is the only book on VN I have ever read.
