Unveiling Bush's mass deceptions

[cthrumatrix]

John Nichols: Unveiling Bush's mass deceptions

By John Nichols
July 29, 2003



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"Using their knowledge of classic public relations scams, the authors explain how the administration and its willing accomplices in the media hyped the case for an invasion of a distant land that posed no realistic threat to America.

"Weapons of Mass Deception" is thick with case studies and meticulously footnoted examples of how the administration sold a fantasy called "Operation Iraqi Freedom." The book's most important sections detail the administration's preparations for what White House aides referred to as the war's "product launch" last fall, and the propaganda techniques employed by the administration to successfully create the false impression that there was a link between Iraq's secularist Baath Party leadership and the fundamentalist al-Qaida network.

As the president's use of false "evidence" in his State of the Union address leads to calls for an independent investigation of the White House spin cycle in the weeks and months before the war began, "Weapons of Mass Deception" is arguably a more credible intelligence document than anything put together by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. And this book could well turn out to be the essential road map through the burgeoning scandals of the Bush White House
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http://www.madison.com/captimes/opinion/column/nichols/53695.php

It's sad...everyone can see this. I pray that the people continue to scream until this bullshit stops.

If we don't where will they take this....and our youth?

[mwb970]

1. Good article

...and the book sounds terrific. Thanks for posting!

[ewagner]

2. Thanks for the post

I have been listening to John on Wisconsi nPublic radio for some time now and find his insights fascinating. Stauber has been un-spinning corporate and gov't lies for some time.

I'm buying this firggin book if I have to crawl to Madison on my knees...in snow...uphilll

you get the picture.....