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	Weapons of mass deception - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Weapons of Mass Deception was used as the title of a nonfiction book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.
		Weapons of Mass Deception was also used as the title of a documentary produced by Danny Schechter which originally aired on HBO.
		Also, a popular NPR commentator Connie Rice read her Top Ten Weapons of Mass Distraction on The Tavis Smiley Show, July 14, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weapons_of_mass_deception (246 words)

	Encyclopedia: Weapons of mass deception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Weapons of mass deception is the term used to describe George W. Bush 's claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction as justification for the war on Iraq by those who hold the suspicion that he did not.
		The term WMD is itself a fascinating conceptual metaphor, as all weapons by definition produce destruction, and more effective weapons do more destruction, also by definition.
		Other poor assumptions behind the term "WMD" ought to be especially evident in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, when terrorists demonstrated that simple implements such as boxcutters could be used to transform the everyday technology of industrial society, such as airplanes, into effective weapons of mass destruction.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Weapons-of-mass-deception (780 words)

	Weapons of Mass Deception: Neo-Cons Promulgate WMD Lie
		So the weapons of mass destruction alluded to in the screaming headline were actual scrap metal and materials which had already been tagged and catalogued by the UN.
		In actual fact, the mobile weapons trucks turned out to be for pumping up hydrogen baloons and were provided by the British.
		The mass graves were actually an exchange program of bodies between Iran and Iraq dating back to the war.
	prisonplanet.com /articles/june2004/061504massdeception.htm (573 words)

	Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: Bush's "big lie" and the crisis of American imperialism
		Mass protests throughout the world had demonstrated as the New York Times admitted at the time, that there were “two superpowers—the United States government and world public opinion,” which were diametrically opposed to one another.
		The specter of weapons of mass destruction was used for an entire decade as an all-purpose excuse for maintaining the blockade of Iraq, preserving the no-fly zones and otherwise subverting Iraqi sovereignty.
		The American media parroted uncritically the claims by the Bush administration that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam Hussein had close ties to the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and that US military action in the Middle East was in retaliation for the September 11 attacks.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jun2003/wmd-j21.shtml (2879 words)

	BuzzFlash > Interview > Schechter
		As I show in "Weapons of Mass Deception," of the 800 experts that were on the air from the beginning of the buildup to the war itself and all the way up to Saddam’s statues coming down in Baghdad, out of 800 experts, only six opposed the war.
		This goes back to the war in Vietnam, as we show in "Weapons of Mass Deception," where the Nixon Administration concluded that the U.S. lost the Vietnam war because of the media.
		That’s why I’m hoping "Weapons of Mass Deception" will be an important addition to everybody’s video shelf, and if they can help to get it into libraries, schools, and screenings in communities and discuss it.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/05/02/int05010.html (3121 words)

	Weapons of mass deception - SourceWatch
		There is a world of difference between a focus group and a mass citizen protest (which attracted 500,000 people in New York alone, and more than a million in London).
		An issue at the core of these conflicts, and reflected in many of the claims on all sides about the outcome of events in Iraq, and consequently in most arguments about this conflict, is that of "weapons of mass destruction" or "WMD".
		The vast stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons have not been found, and would be well past their use-date anyway.
	www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Weapons_of_mass_deception (4050 words)

	WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception not another Bush bash - Silver Chips Online
		Contrary to most of the anti-war, biased documentaries bombarding the silver screen, WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception actually does what a documentary is meant to do: present information and allow the viewer to form his or her own opinion.
		Schechter even forewarns the audience during the first sequence in the film that, after looking at the evidence, this is "his say," encouraging the viewer to go out and develop his or her own conclusions.
		WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (98 minutes) is not rated and is playing at the E Street Landmark Cinema.
	silverchips.mbhs.edu /inside.php?sid=4499 (668 words)

	Weapons of Mass Deception – How the Government Scares Us into War
		So the point is conceded that Hussein is a bad man, but his elevation to Hitler status is a bit overblown and is certainly not a reason to invade a country, particularly when there are any number of evil rulers around the world.
		It may be the case that Iraq does indeed still possess or is trying to develop such weapons, but again, this is not a valid cause for war under current circumstances.
		And third, the contention that Iraq would try to use such weapons against the United States is silly, because Iraq neither has the capability to do so nor is Hussein that stupid.
	www.lewrockwell.com /barnwell/barnwell21.html (1914 words)

	wmdthefilm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		WMD represents the hard work and sacrifice of many committed professionals, filmmakers, journalists, and media activists.
		WMD was over a year in the making on a tight budget.
		WMD can only be successful by utilizing independent media with your support enlist in “Operation Media Freedom.” We are encouraging organizations and individuals to join our “ WMD Media Army.” Help us organize grassroots resistance to media concentration and propaganda posing as news by promoting WMD, by organizing screenings, and spreading the word.
	tinyurl.com /5p7o7 (908 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Bush v. Kerry: The Full Debate Transcript
		And the unique threat was that he could give weapons of mass destruction to an organization like Al Qaida, and the harm they inflicted on us with airplanes would be multiplied greatly by weapons of mass destruction.
		Saddam Hussein was a threat because he could have given weapons of mass destruction to terrorist enemies.
		Meanwhile, while Iran is moving toward nuclear weapons, some 37 tons of what they called yellow cake, the stuff they use to make enriched uranium, while they're doing that, North Korea has moved from one bomb maybe, maybe, to four to seven bombs.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/101004X.shtml (14480 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber's Weapons of Mass Deception claims to expose the propaganda tactics employed by the Bush administration in preparation for, and throughout, the war on Iraq.
		The answer, the authors persuasively suggest, is that the administration was knowingly and successfully using familiar strategies of war propaganda to manipulate the public mind and to build support for the war.
		In fact, the authors suggest, the mass media, public relations, advertising and terrorism all have in common a one-sided approach to communications, which they describe as a "propaganda model" because it often manipulates us on a primitive level, appealing to emotional symbolism.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841198374 (1305 words)

	wmdthefilm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception," is a blow by blow dissection of the news media coverage of the war in Iraq.
		The film WMD, distributed on DVD by Cinema Libre Distribution, won top documentary prizes at film festivals in Austin Texas, Denver Colorado and Durban, South Africa.
		WMD Wins Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary at the Starz Denver International Film Festival.
	www.wmdthefilm.com (1144 words)

	WMD screens at LOWES THEATRE E-WALK - 8th Ave & 42 Street during Republican convention - August 31 - 7 p.m. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) August 28, 2004 -- With mass media focused on Michael Moore's new film bashing President Bush, another feature-length documentary titled, WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception) is rousing as much controversy as it takes on the media itself, and its role in promoting the Iraq war in the guise of covering it.
		WMD investigates collusion between the military, giant media companies and the government.
		As timely as today's headlines, WMD comes on the heels of an admission by the New York Times that its pre-war coverage was deeply flawed and contributes to a growing debate within the news business about its own role that many commentators described as totally different from the coverage seen around the world.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2004/8/prwebxml152897.php (653 words)

	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		That he was continuing to improve his weapons of mass destruction capabilities; that he was hiding these from the world; that there were large, unaccounted for stockpiles.
		We saw a gathering threat, a man who had possessed and used weapons of mass destruction on his own people, a man who sponsored terror, a man who is a danger in the region in which he lived.
		He has used weapons of mass destruction, and the president determined that it was not a risk the world should have to face any longer.
	www.ceip.org /files/projects/npp/resources/iraqintell/adminquoteshtml.htm (13344 words)

	ColdType - Writing Worth Reading From Around The World
		For those of us watching the coverage, war was more of a spectacle, an around the clock global media marathon, pitting media outlets against each other in ways that distorted truth and raised as many questions about the methods of TV news, as it did the armed intervention it was covering-and it some cases-promoting.
		WMD, a 100 minute non-fiction film, explores this story with the findings of a gutsy, media insider-turned-outsider, former network journalist, Danny Schechter, who is one of America's most prolific media critics.
		WMD busts through so-called "objective reporting" to challenge media complicity with the government and its cooperation in presenting the Iraq War the way it did.
	www.coldtype.net /danbook.html (1000 words)

	Weapons of Mass Deception - Center for Media and Democracy
		In Weapons of Mass Deception, Rampton and Stauber show us a brave new shocking world where savvy marketers, “information warriors,” and “perception managers” can sell an entire war to consumers.
		However, its chairman admitted that the idea began with the State Department, and that the group was funded by the U.S. government.
		Weapons of Mass Deception is the first book to expose the aggressive public relations campaign used to sell the American public on the war with Iraq.
	www.prwatch.org /books/wmd.html (715 words)

	Bush Administration's Weapons of Mass Deception: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
		A hot debate is raging on whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and whether the Bush administration—to justify its invasion of Iraq—deceived the public on evidence that those weapons existed.
		For starters, even if unconventional weapons are found, the key fact is that Saddam Hussein did not use them even in the scenario in which almost all Western military analysts predicted that he would do so—the dire situation of a foreign invader taking out his regime (and possibly him).
		Of course, the CIA told the Bush administration that Hussein was unlikely to use any weapons of mass destruction or give them to terrorists unless the United States provoked him by attacking Iraq.
	www.independent.org /tii/news/030605Eland.html (991 words)

	Opinion: Candidate coverage needs more meat
		As for the statement that the "international community" would have been aware of the removal of weapons prior to the war, that is ludicrous - as if every mile of the Iraq border were being monitored by some all-seeing eye.
		Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have been widely reported for years by a variety of sources both pro-Bush and anti-Bush.
		I wish the whole country could read this one and start paying attention to the weapons of mass deception coming from Bush and his cronies.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/01/18/Opinion/Candidate_coverage_ne.shtml (1325 words)

	THE FIRE THIS TIME - WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Having spent twelve years demanding that Iraq comply with weapons inspectors before any sanctions can be lifted, Iraq finally capitulated under a new threat of force.
		The US claims that they have intelligence that proves Saddam Hussein is building weapons of mass destruction.
		Estimates of 250,000 - 500,000 deaths and injuries are currently being put forward, whilst US television features a military spokesman cheerfully describing a 'Shock and Awe' strategy designed specifically to terrorise and murder the population by destroying what is left of their hospitals and water supply.
	www.firethistime.org /weaponsofdeception.htm (1407 words)

	ZNet \|Book \| Weapons of Mass Deception
		We were informed, through the use of dossiers, satellite photos and defector interviews, that it was imperative to invade Iraq to rid the world of imminent nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
		Weapons of Mass Deception is the first comprehensive attempt to explain the PR offensive and media complicity in selling the "necessity" of invasion.
		He said there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - nobody asked him to prove it.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=50&ItemID=4156 (778 words)

	Chronogram - Weapons of Mass Deception - Oct 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chronogram - Weapons of Mass Deception - Oct 2005
		In Weapons of Mass Deception you say that the media sources before the war were 73 percent prowar and 3 percent antiwar.
		It is deceptive because on the one hand you would think there is some sort of objective truth here, and there isn't necessarily.
	www.chronogram.com /issue/2005/10/news/weapons.php (4493 words)

	Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs
		Baghdad's determination to hold onto a sizeable remnant of its WMD arsenal, agents, equipment, and expertise has led to years of dissembling and obstruction of UN inspections.† Elite Iraqi security services orchestrated an extensive concealment and deception campaign to hide incriminating documents and material that precluded resolution of key issues pertaining to its WMD programs.
		Before its departure from Iraq, the IAEA made significant strides toward dismantling Iraq's nuclear weapons program and unearthing the nature and scope of Iraq's past nuclear activities.† In the absence of inspections, however, most analysts assess that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear program—unraveling the IAEA's hard-earned accomplishments.
		The improvement or expansion of a number of nominally "civilian" facilities that were directly associated with biological weapons indicates that key aspects of Iraq's offensive BW program are active and most elements more advanced and larger than before the 1990-1991 Gulf war.
	www.public-domain-content.com /books/cia_reports/Iraq_wmd.shtml (3131 words)

	Remarks as prepared for delivery by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet at Georgetown University February ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the Estimate, all agencies agreed that Saddam wanted nuclear weapons. Most were convinced that he still had a program and if he obtained fissile material he could have a weapon within a year. But we detected no such acquisition.
		Before I leave the Biological Weapons story, an important fact you must remember. For years the UN searched unsuccessfully for Saddam’s Biological Weapons program. His son-in-law, Husayn Kamil, who controlled the hidden program defected, and only then was the world able to confirm that Iraq indeed had an active and dangerous biological weapons program.
		This was critical when the Libyans approached British and US intelligence about dismantling their chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. They came to the British and American intelligence because they knew we could keep the negotiations secret.
	www.cia.gov /cia/public_affairs/speeches/2004/tenet_georgetownspeech_02052004.html (4513 words)

	Capitol Hill Blue: Weapons of Mass Deception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After 12 years of sanctions and the surprisingly effective U.N. arms inspections, Iraq's once ambitious and serious efforts to build weapons of mass destruction were a sham.
		What had happened was that Iraq's scientists were going through the motions of designing and building weapons, even though they didn't have the tools, parts, materials and software to actually do so.
		And one of Iraq's top rocket scientists busied himself designing a long-range missile, basically by combining several existing smaller missiles, that was at least six years away from testing, likely to break up on launch and unable to come within a mile of its target if it flew.
	www.capitolhillblue.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=27&num=3877 (545 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Weapons of Mass Deception: New Film Documents How the Corporate Media Muzzled the Truth About Iraq
		A new documentary called "Weapons of Mass Deception," by Danny Schechter of Mediachannel.org.
		AMY GOODMAN: This is from WMD, Weapons of Mass Deception.
		AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt from WMD, Weapons of Mass Deception.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/12/08/1520209 (1928 words)

	Weapons of Mass Deception - Forward Newspaper Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tehran now acknowledges that it had manufactured hundreds of centrifuges, plus engaged for 18 years in a wide array of unreported nuclear research, much of which is directly applicable to nuclear weapons manufacture and has few plausible civilian uses.
		That initiative will be as important for American security as any deal with dictators about weapons of mass destruction.
		They propose attractive geopolitical concessions — possibly including ending their nuclear program — but only in return for the West agreeing to work with them, which in practice means abandoning the cause of democratic reform.
	www.forward.com /main/article.php?ref=clawson200404141019 (1581 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| UN chief stood in way of war plans
		Renewed UN inspections in Iraq had failed to discover the weapons of mass destruction that Britain and the US insisted were there.
		Worse than that, the chief UN inspector, Hans Blix, began to challenge American claims that the Iraqis were engaged in deception over the alleged weapons.
		· To discover what the weapons inspectors were telling him in private, amid suspicions that he was trying to "sex down" their reports to avoid giving Washington and London an excuse for military action.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1157528,00.html (697 words)

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