Bush PR Campaign: Back to the Basics

Ramzy Baroud*

Removed from reality, self-consumed and desperate, the Bush administration went on another PR offensive, in what is considered the "third most major public relations effort" in the last year. In his first of a series of speeches, the president spoke of a world where pre-emptive wars are crucial to prevent the encroachment of terrorists, that "abandoning" Iraq would leave Americans at risk, where the terrorists would operate "in the streets of our own cities." "The war we fight today is more than a military conflict," he told a group of veterans at an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City on Aug. 31. "It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century."...

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