Promotion+of+the+War

By Mark P The yellow dots with three triangles represents suspected facilities that developing weapons of mass destruction
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The Iraq War started in March of 2003 with the hope that [|the United States] would give the Iraqis democracy and most Americans were convinced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and other cabinet members aroused support for the Iraq War by convincing Americans that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction, that there were connections to the attacks of 9/11/01, and that [|Iraq] must become a democracy and free of an evil dictator. At the state of the Union address in January of 2003 George W. Bush insisted that Iraq was developing centrifuges for uranium enrichment and the enriched uranium would used to develop weapons of mass destruction. Around the same time Mohamed ElBaradei, U.N. chief nuclear inspector, concluded that the centrifuges were artillery rockets and not used for uranium enrichment. Artillery rockets were not considered weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration spoke to the U.N. but most nations rejected helping the United States in the Iraq War. Most of the news media trusted Bush and promoted that America should go to war with Iraq.


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Before the Spanish American War Americans were convinced that Spain blew up the U.S.S Maine and Cuba must be freed from Spain. The U.S.S. Maine most likely blew up dew to mechanical problems. The artist's depiction of the Maine bowing up is greatly exaggerated. One catch phase for the war is "remember the Maine, to hell with Spain." Journalism played a key role in promoting the Spanish American War and the Iraq war.

When Saddam Hussein was overthrown months into the Iraq War, President George W. Bush made his mission accomplished speech and the image of him making the speech was printed in many news papers and shown throughout most of the news media. Many Americans did not realize at the time that the Iraq War was far from over and still going on today.
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