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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Media's Shameful Handling of Bolton's Iran Threat Claims Recalls the Run-Up to the Iraq War
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/12/medias-shameful-handling-boltons-iran-threat-claims-recalls-run-iraq-war?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebookPublished on
Sunday, May 12, 2019
by The Lobe Log
The Media's Shameful Handling of Bolton's Iran Threat Claims Recalls the Run-Up to the Iraq War
Reports from U.S. mainstream media outlets basically served as a public relations service, simply repeating Bolton's statement with little scrutiny across multiple mediums
byBen Armbruster
Media-savvy U.S. government officials, political operatives, and lawmakers and their staffs from all political parties and ideological persuasions have no doubt, throughout the history of our great country, duped a fair-minded but unwitting reporter into writing a juicy story in order to get a piece of information into the public bloodstream without their fingerprints on it.
This is, in large part, how the Bush administration sold the U.S. invasion of Iraq to the American people: Feeding knowingly bogus or unsubstantiated intelligence on Iraqs (nonexistent) WMD programs to reporters, who then published it as fact, without much in the way of critical scrutiny.
Despite the lessons weve learned from that debacle, its happening again with regard to the Trump administrations march toward war with Iran.
"This is, in large part, how the Bush administration sold the U.S. invasion of Iraq to the American people: Feeding knowingly bogus or unsubstantiated intelligence on Iraq's (nonexistent) WMD programs to reporters, who then published it as fact, without much in the way of critical scrutiny."
In one now infamous incident during the months leading up to the start of the Iraq war, then-Vice President Dick Cheney went on NBCs Meet the Press and issued a dire warning. Saddam Hussein was trying through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium to make the bombs. specifically aluminum tubes.
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The Media's Shameful Handling of Bolton's Iran Threat Claims Recalls the Run-Up to the Iraq War (Original Post)
G_j
May 2019
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)1. its probably already a done deal.. the fuckers just need to
soften us up a bit....
kacekwl
(6,993 posts)2. THIS is why being uninformed is so dangerous.
We allow a corrupt government and a lazy corporate media to lie us into war after war under the guise of patriotism. Fool me once people, fool me once.....
elleng
(130,129 posts)3. We NEVER learn.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy, and we don't have one.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. CNN wants to be
on the ground in Terran when the first Cruise Missiles hit. Hey,it sells Soap.