ESSAY
"The Iraqi Conflict"

Categories

Matthew Messinger

April 8, 2003

World

National

Politics

Bush

Deaths

Iraq/Iraqi war

Military

Media manipulation

Technological fix

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"As was seemingly inevitable two weeks ago, the United States and its allied forces have begun a campaign to rid Iraq of the Saddam Hussein lead government.  I would like to focus on how Bush and the media have reported the war thus far and how the world public seems to be reacting....
...I argue that it may be in the psychological warfare that Hussein has the US beat.  Encouraging civilians to treat this was as a jihad, a holy war, and purposefully putting them in front of US guns and missiles will help him win world support, or at least reinforce what he already had.  In the meantime, Bush calls for patients, as our troops continue there march north to Baghdad."

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