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« LAMBRECHTS                              Dossier 2: The War in Irak Tiffanie M2 anglais       The   Iraq   War   is   better   known   as   the   Second   Gulf   War,   a   war   where   Saddam   Hussein was finally overturned from power. This conflict was supposed to be a short   affair   but   it   lasted   for   long.

  Before   September   2002,   Bush   administration   main   provider   of   intelligence   on   Iraq   was   the   CIA .

  Donald   Rumsfeld,   who   was   the   secretary   of   Defense,   wanted   to   make   the   fact­   Saddam   Hussein   had   ties   with   Al   Qaeda­ to be true. There was also the fact that  Iraq  had a huge amount of  chemical ,   biological ,   and   possibly   even   nuclear   weapons   that   threatened   the   United   States.

  While this can be said, not many of us can truly recount the  reasons for war and the   outcome   of   conflict.

  Was   Saddam   Hussein   implicated   in   September   11th   attacks?   That  question  was asked  the day after the attacks of 2001  by Georges  W. Bush.

 A   report   assures   that   he   wasn’t   and   that   there   was   no   bound   between   Iraq   and   Al   Qaeda.        In   2002   vice­president   Dick   Cheney   started   a   diplomatic   round,   telling   everyone   that   Saddam   was   “developing   weapons   of   mass   destruction”;   He   also   met   British   Prime Minister Tony Blair who supported and joined him.  Iraq is considered today as   one of the most dangerous countries in the world. At the beginning of this war there   was a rare number of politics who condemned the conflict, but one of the candidate   for   the   2002   elections   condemned   it:   «   I’m   not   opposed   to   every   war,   but   I   am   opposed to stupid wars   ». Even   if   the   official   reasons   for   entering   the   war   seemed   to   be   good   enough,   the   manipulation of the media proved that there were unofficial ones, in the US interest.       Did Britain have much choice in following the US? Or was it pressured to join the   conflict?   One   can   also   wonder   how  the   US   manipulated   countries   and   populations   for so many years. Thus we can study the media coverage of this war.  We   will   identify   the   preludes   to   the   Ir aq   war   and   its   official   reasons,   with   the   implication   of   the   UK;   and   we’ll  then   focus  on   the   media   coverage   of   the   war,   with   the revelation of the unofficial reasons for war and the role of media.  (   I/ Prelude to     the Iraq War     and its results)             (a­ Preludes and official reasons). »