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K. M.

Iftezar Sayeed
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“Media Propaganda”

Prepared for
Ahrita Shahid (ASd)
INT 201.1

Prepared by

K. M. Iftezar Sayeed
073 214 530

North South University

August 16, 2009


K. M. Iftezar Sayeed
073 214 530

After his arrest, Saddam Hussein, on a conversation with his interrogator FBI
agent George Piro said, “We told President Husni Mubarak (EGYPT): You can
go ahead and announce that the Arabs are prepared to join any treaty to rid the
region of the so-called weapons of mass destruction. The “weapons” Saddam
was referring to were not WMD, but Iraq’s conventional weapons, including its
ballistic missiles. Long-range ballistic missiles were proscribed for Iraq under
U.N. resolutions. We (Saddam) told him: This does not mean only ballistic
missiles, which are no more than artillery of a longer range”. His condition was
“that the Zionist entity”, Israel, “is the first to sign such a treaty.” Hussein
continued, clearly demonstrating that the “weapons” he was referring to were
not WMD, but the conventional arms of Iraq’s military forces. “If the world tells
us to abandon all our weapons and keep only swords,” Hussein said, “we will
do that. We will destroy all the weapons, if they destroy their weapons. But if
they keep a rifle and then tell me that I have the right to possess only a sword,
then we would say no.”

Just after the release of the interrogation files from The George Washington
University National Security Archive, the American Press did it’s best to cover
the failed excuse of getting rid of Iraq’s WMD by the Bush Administration.
Now the mainstream media reported that Saddam lied about having WMDs to
deter an Iran, long regional enemies. This was a successful propaganda
played by the mass media to blind American people that the cause of the war
was merely for a more U.S. friendly regime in the area and of course, another
military base in the Middle East and of course, oil.
How successful was this? To begin with, the main reason of going in to war
with Iraq was for the country’s possession of WMDs. Saddam Hussein denied
well before the war that Iraq does not posses any weapons of mass
destruction. Even Hans Blix, the head of the United Nations weapons
inspection team found no WMD in the region.
The world was starting to question U.S.A. about the false excuse it used to
attack Iraq. This news saved the Bush Administration from public rejection.
The media even suggested that swords and rifles are metaphors for anthrax
and mustard gas, even then not WMDs.
Just like the Afghanistan war was planned, a terrorist attack on The World
Trade Centre (which was proved to be engineered by the U.S. Govt. by more
than half a dozen of documentaries) by Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization,
won the sympathy of the American people for destroying a sovereign country
of Afghanistan.
Terrorism did not stop; Afghanistan and Iraq are suffering a worse financial
situation than before the wars, and eventually rule of jungle prevailing on the
streets.
These are just few examples of how media can be used to fool the common.
The dream machine Hollywood, The Music Industry and other entertainment
bigwigs mostly belonging to Israeli owners offers just the right of amount of
amusement to distract the mass and turn concerned citizens to ignorant ones.
And now the world looks on at Barack Hussein Obama, the first Black
president of America, who offered hope and change to the world, peace in the
Middle East who has delivered a delightful speech to all Muslims in the region.
The speech coined by numerous alternate presses as just another Grammy
winning performance.
K. M. Iftezar Sayeed
073 214 530
K. M. Iftezar Sayeed
073 214 530

Bibliography:

• Jeremy R. Hammond, Western Media Persist in Propaganda About


Iraq’s Purported WMD [Internet] Available from
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/07/03/western-media-
persists-in-propaganda-about-iraqs-purported-wmd/

• Wikipedia, Iraq and weapons of mass destructions [Internet]. Available


from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

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