Top guns in the Bush Administration are now engaged in a new war — it is a public relations campaign designed to reinforce the President’s commitment to continuing the war in Iraq.
President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Republican members of Congress have headed out across the country to deliver one message: that Saddam Hussein was a very bad man, and that no matter how you look at it — the motivations, the justifications, and the reservations — they say the American-led war on Iraq was a very good thing.
The message puts Iraq, today, at the center of the president’s War on Terror, and recasts support for the war as an act of patriotism and pride at a time when the Administration can no longer be certain they are winning the confidence of Americans.
Guests:
Marvin Kalb, executive director, Washington office, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, co-author, “The Media and the War on Terrorism”
Howard LaFranchi, diplomatic affairs reporter for the Christian Science Monitor