Buying the Iraq War - How Big Media Failed Us

A very damning incitement of the media. I'm ashamed to say that for a brief while I was taken in by the wacky message. It was only after the Iraq government allowed UN inspectors into the country and they found nothing that I told myself that Bush would never attack after the UN basically gave Iraq a clean bill of health regarding weapons of mass destruction. Bush went ahead and attacked. I couldn't believe it.
 
I couldn't believe they would go ahead with it either, Josiah. I believe Colin Powell's testimony was the key that made a lot of folks think twice about it, unfortunately.
 

I voted for Bush the first time, after the Iraq war especially, I could not vote for him again.
 
The main stream media are a bunch of sheep. And they want to shepherd their sheep called the viewing public. They don't want to really inform them. The herd of sheep called the sheeple don't exactly want to make it hard for their shepherds either.

The mainstream media basically was the mob that perpetuated a hanging-literally.

Throw in delicate ego and vanity issues they will do nothing but go with the mob/their herd of sheep. Politicians were/are the same way. What not a better to show that they want to be loved(by their voting public and in the annals of history) than to start a war.
 
WhatInThe said:
The main stream media are a bunch of sheep. And they want to shepherd their sheep called the viewing public. They don't want to really inform them. The herd of sheep called the sheeple don't exactly want to make it hard for their shepherds either.

The mainstream media basically was the mob that perpetuated a hanging-literally.

Throw in delicate ego and vanity issues they will do nothing but go with the mob/their herd of sheep. Politicians were/are the same way. What not a better to show that they want to be loved(by their voting public and in the annals of history) than to start a war.
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I think it goes even further than that WhatInThe. Just as AIPAC has their hooks in government, so too do they control what can or can't be said by the media and not only that but that media is now made up of a very few individuals for the most part unlike the old days when there were many news outlets who were vying for the scoop with one another. And investigative journalism was a good thing in both large and small outlets but now seems to be ignored in favour of looking at Associated Press news feeds. Add to that the power of corporations and you have a recipe for control.

I read about some reporters many years ago who had investigated rbGH (which is recumbent bovine growth hormone?)and discovered some terrible effects of this hormone on not only the cows that it's given to but people too when they use dairy. Monsanto, who created the product, communicated with Fox News and the reporters were first forced to change their story and ultimately were fired because I think they refused to water it down. Something like that. I'd post a link but the snow is screwing up my Internet so I can't get to that page, but the facts would be easy enough to Google if you were interested.

So yeah, what news we get is strictly controlled which is one reason to look for alternate sources. Just verify their credentials and potential integrity and look for corroboration always.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Article, video and transcript about the Iraq invasion, for those interested. http://billmoyers.com/content/buying-the-war/
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History will probably show that toppling Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Muammar Ghadafi in Libya totally destabilized the Middle East and most of the Muslim world. True, both were tyrants, and ruled with bloody force, but given the people they were governing, such force was probably the Only way to keep the radicals under control. In both cases, what has replaced them is far worse than what existed during their reigns. American foreign policy, in this 21st century, has been a disaster.
 
Amazing how these same media groups and the general public go after other reporters for a slight, but, something like this, they hold very few accountable keep on going about their business. I loved Stewart's take on this mess.

Fast forward to about 3:35 to get through first part of the info that's just about Williams.

[video]http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/j3ware/guardians-of-the-veracity[/video]
 
AprilT said:
Amazing how these same media groups and the general public go after other reporters for a slight, but, something like this, they hold very few accountable keep on going about their business. I loved Stewart's take on this mess.

Fast forward to about 3:35 to get through first part of the info that's just about Williams.

[video]http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/j3ware/guardians-of-the-veracity[/video]
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Gawd! I will miss Stewart who is not afraid to say it like it is.
 
The PR campaign associated with the Iraq War gives conspiracy theories validity. Perhaps not proof but it show how easily people can be manipulated AND how it's done. I remember with Iraq in spring of 2002 seeing little one or two paragraph stories in the middle of the news section of the newspapers. They started out as "a" Pentagon feasibility study for invading Iraq or something to that effect. After you read it you would think eh, just another study or the Pentagon is fishing for money. But little "studies" or stories like that just don't wind up in the news because it's a slow news day. They are planted directly or indirectly.

Then "a" study morphed into a possible plan and WMD issue slowly but steadily increasing in volume & intensity of those stories. Then it started grapping headlines on a daily basis and before you know it-invasion.

Combine the media campaign along with traditional political strategies and a subtle but massive PR campaign to shame anyone who was against the invasion as unpatriotic you have a green light for an unnecessary war.

The key lesson is sometimes pay attention to the small stories or when an issue or event FIRST makes the news. The preliminary stories are the tell.
 

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