Iraq War 2003

Key Players

The Executive

Vice President's Office

• Irving Libby
• David Wurmser

Department of Defense

• Donald Rumsfeld
• Paul Wolfowitz
• Office of Special Plans
  • Douglas Feith

Department of State

• John Bolton

National Security Agency

• Elliot Abrams

Defence Policy Board

• Richard Perle

The Legislative

• Joseph Lieberman
• Tom Lantos

Civil Society

Think Tanks

• Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
• Center for Security Policy

Citizens and Pressure Groups

• Elie Wiesel

Media

Publications

• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Judith Miller
• Michael Gordon
• Charles Krauthammer
• George Will
• Thomas Friedman
• Kenneth Pollock

External Resources

• David Miller (ed.), Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq], Pluto Press 2004.
• Paul de Rooij, A Riposte to Gen. Powell: Where are the Incubators?, CounterPunch, 6 Feb. 2003. (curious element of this article is that it was published in CounterPunch two hours after the infamous speech)
• Paul de Rooij, Arrogant Propaganda: US Propaganda During the First 10 Days of the Iraq War, CounterPunch, 31 March 2003.
• Paul de Rooij, The Hydra's New Head: Propagandists and Selling the US-Iraq War, CounterPunch, 14 May 2003.