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Weapons of mass deception: The uses of propaganda in Bush's war on Iraq
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, 176 pages, Constable & Robinson £6.99
"War is Sell" proclaims a chapter heading in this compelling study of how the US government used propaganda to market the war against Iraq to the American public. And sell it they did, from the cash thrown at advertising campaigns to show the Arab world how "Muslim-friendly" the US really is, to the millions of dollars handed to PR firms to create and fund Iraqi groups whose sole purpose was to make the Bush administration's argument for war.The authors show how innuendo and misinformation were used to prepare the public for a war that had already been decided upon, and how a compliant media willingly went along with it.