How to start a war

[Danhalen]

Originally Posted by alphamale

OK! The OP appears to be referring to the newly-revealed practice of the U.S. paying Iraqi newspapers to print good news, true good news, about positive things happening in Iraq. Oh horrors!

Actually the OP is referring to how the war was started. Apparently you never read the linked articles.

The U.S. LME coverage of Iraq, when an election isn't happening, has often been reduced to small paragraphs like "Ten marines were killed in Iraq today. That brings the total since the war started to 1034. In other news .....".

If the war had never been started through warping the perception of the American people there may not be headlines relating the toll of American deaths.

This war, far more than any preceding war, is a war of information, with the LME as usual on the enemy's side, as when CNN cleared their pre-war broadcasts from Iraq with the Iraqi propaganda chief.

I'd like to see how they could have done otherwise without endangering the lives of their reporters.