The Bush Doctrine and Iraq

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The paper discusses the Bush doctrine of preemptive war and its manifestation in the Iraq War. The paper provides evidence that the Bush Administration provided fraudulent justifications and employed a mass media disinformation campaign in order to gain support for the war in Iraq. The paper highlights the failure of this invasion and emphasizes that this was aggression disguised as self defense.

From the Paper:

"Analyzing the Bush doctrine as it relates to the war in Iraq requires examining the covert motivations of the Bush Administration while applying a credibility test to the "evidence" it offered to justify military intervention in Iraq. As Pitt and Ritter (2002) warned, once this "evidence" is dissected and compared to actual conditions in Iraq before the invasion, it is clear that Bush Administration "evidence" was systematically exaggerated, contrived, and concocted, and then peddled through the mass media to build a fraudulent case for war against Iraq."

Sample of Sources Used:

• The National Security Strategy of the United States of America. (2002). The White House. Online. Available: http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html. 11 April 2007.
• "Bush and Iraq." (February 9, 2003). USA Today.
• Hamilton, William. (April 16, 2004). "Bush Began to Plan War Three Months After 9/11." The Washington Post.
• "Media Matters." (2007). Online. Available: http://mediamatters.org/. 11 April 2007.
• Pitt, William Rivers, and Ritter, Scott. (2002). War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know. New York: Context Books.

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