PROPAGANDA

Alternet: A Lesson In U.S. Propaganda

Last week U.N. weapons inspectors swooped in to inspect the Iraqi
manufacturing plant that U.S. planes bombed in 1991. Iraq said the
plant made infant milk formula; the U.S. said it made biological
weapons. Mark Crispin Miller examines the evidence and concludes
that Iraq's version was correct. Nevertheless, "Iraq, in trying to
publicize the targeting of its civilian infrastructure, had engaged
in clumsy propaganda (which backfired in the West), while the US
counter-propaganda was apparently disinformation (which succeeded).
As we sit and wait for another war against Iraq, we should remember
this triumphant bit of spin - and all the other winning lies of
Operation Desert Storm."