Iraq War 2003

Key Players

The Executive

• White House Iraq Group

Vice President's Office

• Irving Libby
• David Wurmser
• John Hannah
• Office of Global Communications

Department of Defense

• Donald Rumsfeld
• Paul Wolfowitz
• Office of Special Plans
  • Douglas Feith
  • William Luti
  • Abram Shulsky
  • Michael Rubin
  • David Schenker
  • Michael Makovsky
  • Larry Franklin
• Office of Strategic Influence
• Information Operations Task Force

Department of State

• John Bolton
• John Hannah

National Security Agency

• Elliot Abrams

Defence Policy Board

• Richard Perle
• James Woolsey
• Ken Adelman

The Legislative

• Joseph Lieberman
• Tom Lantos

Civil Society

Think Tanks

• Project for the New American Century
• American Enterprise Institute
  • Laurie Mylroie
  • Joshua Muravchik
• Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
• Center for Security Policy
  • Frank Gaffney
• Saban Center for Middle East Policy
  • Martin Indyk
  • Kenneth Pollack

Citizens and Pressure Groups

• Elie Wiesel
• Freedom's Watch

Media

Publications and pundits

• New York Times
  • Judith Miller
  • Thomas Friedman
  • Kenneth M. Pollack
  • Michael Gordon
• Washington Post
  • Charles Krauthammer
  • George Will
• Weekly Standard
  • William Kristol
• Fox News

PR

• Rendon Group

Iraqi Exiles

• Iraqi National Congress
  • Ahmad Chalabi
• Iraqi National Accord
  • Iyad Allawi

External Resources

• James Bamford, Iran: The Next War, Rolling Stone, August 10 2006
• David Miller (ed.), Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq], Pluto Press 2004.
• Seymour Hersh, Selective Intelligence, New Yorker, 12 May 2003
• 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

Videos

• The Fifth Estate: The Lies That Led To War, CBC, 7 March 2007