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200 10$aMass deception $emoral panic and the U.S. war on Iraq /$fScott A. Bonn
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew Brunswick, NJ $cRutgers University Press$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (209 p.)
225 1 $aCritical issues in crime and society
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. George W. Bush and the Drums of War --$tChapter 2. Why Do Many in Society Drink the Kool-Aid Served in a Moral Panic? --$tChapter 3. Empirical Evidence of an Elite-Engineered Moral Panic over Iraq --$tChapter 4. How the Bush Administration Sold the Iraq War to the U.S. Public --$tChapter 5. The Power Elite, State Crime, and War Crime --$tChapter 6. The Higher Immorality and Crimes of the Bush Administration --$tChapter 7. What Are the Lessons of the Iraq War? --$tAppendix --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author
330   $aThe 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.
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606   $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States
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