Baby Eaters

Um...huh? I think this can go in the "what the fuck?" propaganda file. I thought calling your enemies baby-eaters had gone out of vogue. Guess not.

(excerpt) Marines in south-central Iraq offered food packets to wary civilians yesterday. [...] One Marine said a prisoner of war told him "they'd heard to be a Marine, you had to eat a baby or kill someone."

I'm sure everyone knows that, according to late Medieval/Renaissance diabolist theory, witches flew to their giant sabbats, danced about naked, kissed Satan's ass as a pledge to honor and obey him, had orgy sex (which was pleasureless because of Satan's cold, hard flesh (ew!)), and made mock-Host out of babies which had been roasted/boiled during the sabbat. Because witches, as societal scapegoats, were supposed to be deviant from the societal norm, the idea of the witch snatching, cooking and consuming babies is very common through much witch myth. The invading marines are deviants not to be accepted by good Iraqis, therefore the marines are called baby-eaters. It's stupid and medieval, but it works, especially on a panicked populace kept ignorant by its leaders. (Remind you of anything?)