Iraq

Troops, Hoops and Antichoice Brutes

by Diane Farsetta — August 21, 2006 - 3:17pm

USA Basketball is in a slump, suffering more losses in 2004 "than the team had in its entire Olympic history." To inspire the players, managing director Jerry Colangelo and coach Mike Krzyzewski turned to U.S. "soldiers maimed and crippled by the war in Iraq," arranging a televised meeting between the veterans and the athletes. Using soldiers wounded in "a deeply unpopular war from which, according to a recent Zogby poll, 72 percent of troops want to escape ...

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The Nation (U.S.), August 28, 2006

"Vets for Freedom" Fight for Rove and Lieberman

by John Stauber — August 11, 2006 - 12:03pm
  • Topics: Iraq, Front Groups, Politics

    • The Republican lobby group Vets for Freedom is the 2006 equivalent of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Republican 527 committee whose attack advertisements in battleground states helped sink John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race by smearing him as a pho

    VFF Loves GI Joe

    by John Stauber — August 11, 2006 - 8:48am

    Vets for Freedom is a 527 committee managed by Republican public relations and political consultants, including Taylor Gross, attempting to defeat candidates who advocate an end to the U.S.

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    Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), August 10, 2006

    Spinning an Iraq Oil Kickbacks Confession

    by Bob Burton — August 11, 2006 - 3:30am

    Faced with a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the payment of approximately $A300 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government, in breach of the United Nations' Iraq Oil-for-Food Program, the Australian wheat trader AWB Limited hired

    Main Source: 
    News.com.au (Australia), August 10, 2006

    Half of Americans Still Believe In WMDs - They Saw Them on TV

    by John Stauber — August 8, 2006 - 8:04pm
  • Topics: Iraq, Media, Propaganda

    • A recent Harris Poll reports found that while “the U.S. and other countries have not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, surprisingly more U.S. adults (50%) think that Iraq had such weapons when the U.S. invaded Iraq. This is an increase from 36 percent in February 2005.”

    This is terrible news.

    Republican Criticizes Bush Over Secret WMD Propaganda

    by John Stauber — August 4, 2006 - 7:19am

    The New York Times reports that "The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee lashed out at the White House on Thursday, criticizing attempts by the Bush administration to keep secret parts of a report on the role Iraqi exiles played in building the case for war against Iraq. The chairman, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas ...

    Main Source: 
    New York Times, August 4, 2006

    Russo Marsh & Rogers Flacks for Iraq

    by John Stauber — July 31, 2006 - 11:35am

    Aaron Glantz, author of How America Lost Iraq, reports on Free Speech Radio and in Inter Press Service that "Kurdish officials toured the United States last week to launch a massive advertising and public relations campaign [under the slogan Kurdistan - The Other Iraq ] thanking the United States ... .

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    Inter Press Service, July 31, 2006

    Iran: The Next War

    by John Stauber — July 28, 2006 - 9:14am

    James Bamford reports that "War with Iran has been in the works for the past five years, shaped in almost complete secrecy by a small group of senior Pentagon officials attached to the Office of Special Plans.

    Main Source: 
    Rolling Stone, July 26, 2006

    The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq

    by John Stauber — July 26, 2006 - 9:36am
  • Topics: Iraq, Terrorism, Propaganda, War / Peace

    • Exactly three years ago our book Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq was published. Our publisher pitched it this way: "Rampton and Stauber take no prisoners as they reveal - headline by headline, news show by news show, press conference by press conference - the deliberate, aggressive, and highly successful public relations campaign that sold the Iraqi war to the American public.

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