Interview and pictures

Irag and the Media; How the Bush administration lost the publicity war.


Complete Show Length in minutes: 5 minutes

Episode 1: Topic ____Initial Bush Policy ______________________________________
Intro Music Clip: Title: __Tell me a Lie Janie Fricke_____ Minutes: ___20 seconds____
Intro: _____Lies, Lies and more Lies_______________Minutes:__1 minute________
______Just about everyone now knows that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction when the
United States invaded Irag. The real shocker comes when we discover just what led us to believe
That there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Irag. Two non-profit groups, the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism conducted a study of the Bush administration’s references
to Iraq having Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The statistics are shocking for what we know to be blatant lies, Iraq was stated to either have WMDs, be trying to acquire WMDs, or have links with Al Qaida 532 separate times in the two years after 9/11. All of which were lies. That is no way to fight a war, and when people eventually find out about all of the lies that they have been told there is bound to be a negative response, as the former president discovered.


Segment Music Clip: Title: ___Imperial March (Vader’s Theme Song)_John Williams__ Minutes: __20 seconds
Segment: _____How did such a popular war become so unpopular so quickly?___ _Minutes:___2 ______
______From hearing people talk, most were in favor of the invasion when it began in 2003. The president’s approval rating in all polls had only been higher immediately after the 9/11 attacks. The rating was fairly stable at an average of 70%. Within just three years only 38% of the population would support the war destined to become the third longest in the history of the United States. What happened in that time? What could make so many people change their minds in such a short period of time? For one thing, the official reports started to trickle in that there weren’t actually any WMDs in Iraq. I have found an article on the Fox News website from October 7 2004, that reported Charles Duelfer, the head of the government’s Iraq Survey Group, submitted a 1,500 page report to the Senate Armed Services Committee that stated there was no evidence of Saddam Hussein stock piling WMDs, producing WMDs after 1991 or passing those WMDs to Al Qaida. He reported that the capabilities were still in place, but that at the time of the invasion there was no immediate threat to the United States. That report was not the only one. When taken as a whole I guess it is not so surprising why the public turned on the President so quickly.

End Segment Music Clip: Title: __National Anthem of the Soviet Union__ Minutes: ___20 seconds_____
Ending: __Democracy is the voice of the people, right?_______Minutes:___50 seconds_______
The person I choose to interview was the Media Analysis Teacher at my high school, Mrs. Kara Clayton. I originally wrote the interview questions assuming that the interviewee would have supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which she did not. This threw me for a loop until she explained to me that her husband is a civilian contractor for the United States Army. With all of his connections she was much better informed than the average. This makes me even more worried, if the army knew what was going on and the people, didn’t. That sounds more like a fascist state than a democracy.

Ending Music Clip: Title: _____Funeral Dirge by Baby Dayliner_______ Minutes: __30 seconds_____
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Sources
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/media/2008/0122falsestate.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134625,00.html
http://z.about.com/d/uspolitics/1/0/z/D/bush_total_1may_umn.png
Special thanks to Mrs. Clayton