In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, United States President George W Bush’s administration and its surrogates went into overdrive, pushing the narrative that Iraq, and its leader Saddam Hussein, posed an immediate and significant threat to the US, and the world.
Most of the media in the US and the UK uncritically repeated dubious claims about weapons of mass destruction and possible links to al-Qaeda, claims that were thoroughly debunked in the months and years that followed.
So how complicit was the media in selling the Iraq war to the public in the US and the UK? And has the press learned any lessons from past failures?
In an UpFront Special, Marc Lamont Hill is joined by publisher and editorial director of The Nation magazine, Katrina Vanden Heuvel; founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Norman Solomon; and former chief political commentator for the Daily Telegraph, Peter Oborne.
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Real bastorb bush killed innocent in Iraq 🇮🇶 lied mass distrusion.and killed many in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 9/11 issue aulso lied
And they are doing the very same thing again and this time its target is China. 🙄
could it return something to iraq to acknowledeging the blunder absolutely but not worth noting is media is puppet through out his origin even today a sad reality of mortal world.
The comments here equating Ukraine to Iraq and Afghanistan are delusional. Ukraine is a chance for US to redeem itself, not another repetition of its imperialist fallacies.
Now USA and his allies want to bully China by English media to demonize China.
Bush & Blair are War Criminals and should be in PRISON for the illegal acts in Iraq
Media in west is used to manipulate masses. Jewish zionist movement created this system called "agenda setting". That's why they do everything required to control media. They are training hindu fascist movement called hindutva in doing the same. Therefore western media and Indian media today are completely working for zionist and hindutva fascist agenda.
Western media is zionist controlled and Indian media is hindutva controlled both fascist movements. Method to control masses is called agenda setting.
Ironically, as I remember the Iraq war was when Al Jazeera started to become more popular. At least in my part of the world.
There are cases where journalists are criminal killers: this is one of those cases. Some US journalists have innocent blood on their hands.
why are the warcriminals Bush, Blair, Wolfowitz, Bremer are still free!
I was shocked when I saw pictures of the destruction and the tears of the Iraqui people. All because of lies told by Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld. Warmongers are running the show now in D.C.
What we don't see is the hidden Zionist pressure in all of this.
Aren’t mainstream media houses still lapdogs vis à vis the Ukraine war.
The US invasion number 2 of IRAQ was not justified, and the shock and awe assault probably was a war crime. However, when other countries like Russia invade a country, they often site the US invasion of Iraq …. just because the US did it does not make the invasion of Ukraine ok. That would be like a rapist and murderer sitting other rapists and murderers as a justification.
How US media sold the Iraq war is how they're selling the Ukraine war now. Maybe some of those 'journalists' will start apologising 10 years from now. I really don't mind US and Nato committing all types of international crime just to stay as the top most powerful influence. But please do NOT do it in the name DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM & JUSTICE!
Can Julian Asange be freed now
A moral case for the friends of Israel
how moral are they❓
I remember arguing with two local journalists about the US-Iraq invasion, of course they were journalists and knew better, but something about the invasion never sank in well with me over the years. I knew from reading elsewhere that there was no WMD and stood firm from that day that the invasion was illegal and was supported by global media.
Shame, how all the conspiracy theories and public assumptions about the media are being confirmed daily by the misreporting and profit over lives.
A cynical conclusion I draw from the political impact on mass media is: if you want to be a well-off reporter, don't report the bad; if you must report the bad, don't report them onshore but offshore.