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How They Sold the Iraq War
St. Clair, Jeffrey
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/20/how-they-sold-the-iraq-war/Date Written: 2018-03-20 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX22188 The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management. Abstract: - Excerpt: The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as "weapons of mass destruction" and "rogue state" were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us. To understand the Iraq war you don't need to consult generals, but the spin doctors and PR flacks who stage-managed the countdown to war from the murky corridors of Washington where politics, corporate spin and psy-ops spooks cohabit. Subject Headings |