Media Construction of Peace

PowerPoint Slide Show, Unit 8, Lesson 1

Iraq War

“Sponsored by INOC (the Interfaith Network of

Concern for the People of Iraq)

and the Edmonds Domincans”

“BASED ON AN IDEA BY GEORGE BUSH SR.

PRODUCTION DESIGNED TO DISTRACT YOU

FROM THE FAILING ECONOMYPRODUCED BY THE

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN ASSOCIATION WITH EXXON,

TEXACO, MOBIL ET AL.DIRECTED BY A DESIRE TO WIN

THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONSTHE SUCCESS OF THIS MILITARY

ACTION HAS NOT YET BEEN RATED”

Thirty members of the Iraq Peace Team face the cameras of international media at the Al Taji electrical generation plant in Baghadad

“It’s past time for finger pointing. It’s time for someone in this government to step forward and take personal responsibility for the deadly deceptions used to mislead this great nation into war. And that someone must be George Bush.”

“Dear Ben,If we can make certain that disinformation campaigns are never again used to drag America into unnecessary war, that will be a “Mission Accomplished” worthy of celebration.”

If a thousand people were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood. - Henry David Thoreau”On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”

“Who should use this form?This form is for:• people who want to register a protest to paying taxes for war• people who choose to refuse to pay some or all of their federal taxes because they are spent on war”