Ties+between+the+two+Wars

=__Ties Between Iraq War and Spanish American War__=

The imperialism in the Iraq war is like the Spanish American war. In the Spanish American war, the government published pictures about the war to sway the public’s opinion. For example when the US Maine exploaded an artist drew a picture (shown below) that really exagerated how bad the explosion was and the US government blamed the explosion on the Spanish so that the public would agree that we were justified in going to war. [|William Randolph Hearst] who was a newspaper writer was "pro" war against that Spanish. He wanted to seel as many newspapers as possilbe, so he did as much as he could to get sales high. One of the ways was, making up stories from fake pictures. A famous quote said by him was, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." Hearst was true to his word. For weeks after the //Maine// disaster, the //Journal// devoted more than eight pages a day to the story. (The Spanish-American War).



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In this advertisement during the Spanish American war, the government tried to convince the public that it was the right choice to choose the Repeblican party by showing the Repubican side of the banner look much more prosperous and happy. The Democratic side looks bleak and depressing and they show starving children in Cuba because the Democratic party was elected. [|Yellow Journalism] like this still happends today when our government displays inspiring pictures of the iraq war like this but they hide pictures from us that would cause us to disagree with the fighting that is taking place.



(cortesy of [|Google Images]) This picture shows the soldiers in Iraq having fun with the Iraqi kids. The government wants us to see these kind of pictures so that we think that there is peace in Iraq acually the opposite is true everyday our own soldiers are dying and the government is using yellow journalism to cover it up.

"We went to war to 'save' America. Bad idea. We've already had 3000+ US dead, 25,000+ seriously wounded, and likely hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths. Death is not the best liberation. We cannot 'win' in Iraq and never should've gone to war there. We need to really support the troops and bring them home to their families so they can protect the homeland." - [|DRP Blogspot]

We are a population that is so reliant on our our technology to inform us of whats happening around the world. We may think that there is no yellow journalism today but the government still withholds most of the pictues and videoclips that show us how bad the war is. In our society we can get so caught up with everything that is going on that we dont relize that our contry is at war and the media tries to condone what is going on. The US army is trying to force our ideas of democracy on their culture and they are resiting us. We are not justified to kill for no reason and lose our soldiers fighting a country to make them belive in what we do.