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“invasion of Iraq.”
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“What explains this gap in public knowledge and the facts on the ground?”
“The horrors that have been normalized in Gaza are the culmination of this long history of racism and injustice.”
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“Congress that Saddam Hussein was aggressively developing WMDs, advocated for preemptive U.S.”
“It is a systematic pattern rooted in imperial power and a racialized hierarchy of whose suffering matters.”
“Despite internal dissent within the intelligence community and a glaring lack of hard evidence, the media did little to challenge these claims.”
“Iraq was invaded, the lives of ordinary Iraqis were shattered, and no weapons were ever found.”
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“More than two decades after the incursion that claimed so many Iraqi lives, wrought havoc on the region, and sowed the seeds of ongoing conflict, there is now a clear consensus among analysts and the American public that the war was a catastrophic foreign policy mistake.”
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“Some of them are now repeating the same tropes, this time to defend a state engaged in genocide.”
“The war unsettled the region, paved the way for the rise of ISIS, and triggered a cascade of violence that continues to this day.”
“A narrative is simply a story, and how that story is told helps mold public opinion.”
“In Gaza, we hear terms like “precision strikes,” “military targets,” and “human shields” to validate the wholesale destruction of refugee camps, hospitals, and entire cities.”
“However, this is not simply a media failure.”
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“Yet no one was held accountable, not the Bush administration officials who orchestrated the war based on falsehoods, nor the journalists and editors who failed to do their jobs.”
“media presented a narrative of benevolent intervention.”
“Iraqis in 2003, like Palestinians today, were not seen as full human beings deserving of life, freedom, or justice.”