WHY? The Western media learned in the 19 years of the Iraq war
The US-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003. Robert Intakes, a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker in the United Kingdom, says more than a million Iraqis have been killed in US airstrikes. The United States carried out the attack on false pretenses — it is now well established. They did not take the lessons that the Western media should have learned from that bloody war in Iraq. The Western media is making the same mistake in the ongoing Russian attack on Ukraine.
Robert Intakes, has worked as a journalist in the Israeli-occupied territory of Palestine. That's where he lives. Works at Quads News. He is the director of the documentary 'Steel of the Century: Trump's Palestine-Israel Catastrophe'. A report by Robert Intakes, in the RT news agency, said that during the Iraq war, Americans were told that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein needed to be removed for world peace. The United States has accused Saddam of using weapons of mass destruction and collusion with al-Qaeda. There were also allegations that Saddam wanted to carry out genocide. At the time, British Prime Minister Tony Blair compared Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler, the ruler of Nazi Germany.
At the time, anti-Middle Eastern hatred was rife among Westerners due to the Nine-Eleven attacks. Then-President George W. Bush sought to legitimize the invasion of Iraq by campaigning for a war on terror. Although there have been numerous allegations of human rights against Saddam Hussein, none of the major allegations against him have been substantiated over time. In Geneva, the International Commission of Jurists called the Iraq war an aggression and a violation of international law. But the Western media has presented the attack only as a war.
At the time, the Western media blamed the Middle East and the Muslim community for everything. Due to such representations in the Western media, the US support was 52 to 64 percent before the Iraq war. On the day of the attack, support rose to 72 percent. More than 6,018 Iraqis have been killed in the first two months of the US-led invasion of Iraq. At that time, the Western media reported the victory of the United States and the United Kingdom. There have been no reports of casualties or destruction in Iraq, according to Western media reports. The United States has said no Western media outlet raised the question of where Saddam's weapons of mass destruction went. As proof of this, Robert Intakes, cites a statement by the BBC's Andrew Murray about British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "Tony Blair said they would be able to occupy Baghdad without any bloodshed, Robert said. In the end, the Iraqis will celebrate the victory. And Tony Blair has finally proved himself right. Despite allegations of war crimes against the United States and the United Kingdom, the Western media continues to provide coverage in support of the two governments. Robert cites a number of incidents, citing war crimes in the United States and the United Kingdom. On April 2, 2003, US warplanes attacked the Red Crescent Mother and Children's Hospital in Baghdad. According to the Guardian, many people were brutally killed in the attack. Nearly two years after the attack, the war in Iraq is said to have killed more than 100,000 civilians. Even then, in 2004, George W. Bush was re-elected. UN Security Council calls for immediate end to hostilities in Iraq Countless civilians have been killed in the attacks. Anti-war protesters have demanded the trial of Bush and Blair. Despite all this, on October 7, 2003, Time Magazine covered the Bush administration. Time Magazine criticizes what Bush did wrong during the invasion of Iraq. And the headline of the report published in The Economist was 'Fight for Peace Now'. The report cites plans to rehabilitate Iraq instead of accusing it of war crimes. Fox News and other Western media outlets later lamented the one-sided approach to the Iraq war. Western journalists also said that we needed to be more vigilant about bombings of civilians. Peter Van Buren, a former State Department official, has served in Iraq for one year. Asked what the Western media learned from the invasion of Iraq, he said, "What did they learn? Did not take any education. In 2003, while serving as an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I witnessed the horrors of war. At that time, the mainstream western media not only printed the lies of the government, but also spread them loudly. The Western media has spread the news in such a way that the war has been legitimized. At that time, George W. Bush became their editor-in-chief; The one who threw questions at the media, are they with the West, or with the terrorists? And the media responded to his call by taking a stand in favor of the attack and suppressing dissent.
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