03816nam 2200697Ia 450 991078835690332120230725040343.01-283-38319-597866133831980-8135-4996-510.36019/9780813549965(CKB)3170000000046809(EBL)832033(OCoLC)769927199(SSID)ssj0000576018(PQKBManifestationID)11362419(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000576018(PQKBWorkID)10553935(PQKB)11253750(MiAaPQ)EBC832033(MdBmJHUP)muse8129(DE-B1597)528979(DE-B1597)9780813549965(Au-PeEL)EBL832033(CaPaEBR)ebr10523606(CaONFJC)MIL338319(EXLCZ)99317000000004680920091030d2010 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrMass deception[electronic resource] moral panic and the U.S. war on Iraq /Scott A. BonnNew Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Pressc20101 online resource (209 p.)Critical issues in crime and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4788-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Foreword --Preface --Chapter 1. George W. Bush and the Drums of War --Chapter 2. Why Do Many in Society Drink the Kool-Aid Served in a Moral Panic? --Chapter 3. Empirical Evidence of an Elite-Engineered Moral Panic over Iraq --Chapter 4. How the Bush Administration Sold the Iraq War to the U.S. Public --Chapter 5. The Power Elite, State Crime, and War Crime --Chapter 6. The Higher Immorality and Crimes of the Bush Administration --Chapter 7. What Are the Lessons of the Iraq War? --Appendix --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorThe attacks of 9/11 led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that the nation's leader, Saddam Hussein, was linked to Osama bin Laden nor proof of weapons of mass destruction. Why, then, did the Iraq war garner so much acceptance in the United States during its primary stages? Mass Deception argues that the George W. Bush administration manufactured public support for the war on Iraq. Scott A. Bonn introduces a unique, integrated, and interdisciplinary theory called "critical communication" to explain how and why political elites and the news media periodically create public panics that benefit both parties. Using quantitative analysis of public opinion polls and presidential rhetoric pre- and post-9/11 in the news media, Bonn applies the moral panic concept to the Iraq war. He critiques the war and occupation of Iraq as violations of domestic and international law. Finally, Mass Deception connects propaganda and distortion efforts by the Bush administration to more general theories of elite deviance and state crime.Critical issues in crime and society.Iraq War, 2003-2011DeceptionIraq War, 2003-2011CausesDeceptionPolitical aspectsUnited StatesRhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesIraq War, 2003-2011Deception.Iraq War, 2003-2011Causes.DeceptionPolitical aspectsRhetoricPolitical aspects956.7044/31Bonn Scott A.1957-1491264Welch Michael556609MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788356903321Mass deception3713041UNINA