Besides the restrictions for free media reporting inflicted by the government, the media was one of the strongest censors themselves. Besides security reasons, the censorship policy was also intended to raise and sustain support for the American troops on the home front in order to avoid “mistakes” in the handling of the media, that supposedly lead to the defeat in the Vietnam War. The Persian Gulf War in 1991 is considered to be one of the most strongly censored wars in American history. The American people were seduced into the celebration of a slaughter by controlled propaganda demonizing Iraq, assuring the world no harm would come to Iraqi civilians, deliberately spreading false stories of atrocities including chemical warfare threats, deaths of incubator babies and threats to the entire region by a new Hitler” (Initial Complaint of the International War Crimes Tribunal) 1 “The Bush Administration achieved a five-month-long commercial for militarism and individual weapon systems. 2.1 Propaganda for the liberation of KuwaitĢ.2 Kuwait’s engagement in the propagandaģ.4 Reporting under the government’s restrictions
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