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Now playing at the Quad Theater in New York, “War Made Easy” is the
definitive study of how the mainstream media in the United States
permitted itself to be used as a propaganda outlet of the Bush
administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq. It places “embedded”
journalism in the larger context of pro-war media going back to the
early stages of the Cold War, and is particularly adept in making
comparisons with the war in Vietnam. Just as the Gulf of Tonkin
incident—an attack on American destroyers by Vietnamese patrol boats
that never really happened—was used as a pretext for getting into
Vietnam, so were false reports on weapons of mass destruction and Saddam
Hussein ties to al Qaeda used for this most recent imperialist debacle.
